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« on: December 18, 2021, 01:36:22 PM » |
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The greatest lie every told was that by Reaganites asserting that they were "not conservatives, but the Conservatives" and no other form of conservatism existed.
The decline of what this article speaks of is not the "decline of conservatism", but the reassessing of what it means to be a conservative in a given period and a different form of conservatism (more nationalist, less liberal in the old school sense) asserting itself as the dominant form of the brand.
The reality is there are multitudes of different forms of conservatism and Reaganism is just one form, but acknowledging the existence of others, limits your ability to control the space. This is why Reaganism was able to purge other forms and why libertarians were on the outs in the 2000s and why the Neocons are on the outs now.
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