The new right is the growing intellectual backbone of the Trump movement. After reading this article over the summer, I went on a deep dive to learn it. You need to know it too. It's not fringe. It's real and it's dangerous. 1/ Here's a quick primer. vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/i…
2/ At its heart, the new right represents a rejection of classic liberalism - the idea that individual rights, free but fair markets, and democracy best secure happiness. "A free life is hell on earth", one of their thought leaders wrote this weekend.
3/ The new right believes that humans require strict behavior constraints, and that government should be organized to impose these constraints through a type of Christian neo-theocracy. That's why the new right supports bans on abortion and homosexuality.
4/ Essentially, the new right wants to roll back American social progress 100 years. Women should know their place (behind men), and "multiculturalism" is corrosive. America needs a dominant culture, says the new right, and it should be white and patriarchal.
5/ Further, the new right believes democracy has outlived its usefulness. Democracy is too inefficient, and voters are too dumb. Curtis Yarvin, the intellectual muse of the new right, supports a monarchy, writing: "Democracy...is just impossible. With today’s voters, at least".
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@ChrisMurphyCT The baseline is the RW constant need to feel superior to "others". BTW "reactionary" covers their backwards thinking. "Superiority complex" unveils their deep sense of failure. #Lakoff laid out their warped hierarchy.
@ChrisMurphyCT According to demographic trends, this will never happen.