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National Review has published yet another article on “the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of the Alt-Right”:
“Last week, Breitbart writers Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos took it upon themselves to pen an apologia for the “Alternative Right,” or Alt-Right — the grab bag of ostensibly right-wing anti-liberal ideologies whose disciples, of late, are thrilling to the rise of Donald Trump.
The Alt-Right has evangelized over the last several months primarily via a racist and anti-Semitic online presence. But for Bokhari and Yiannopoulos, the Alt-Right consists of fun-loving provocateurs, valiant defenders of Western civilization, daring intellectuals — and a handful of neo-Nazis keen on a Final Solution 2.0, but there are only a few of them, and nobody likes them anyways. In other words, anyone familiar with Yiannopoulos’s theatrics, or Breitbart’s self-appointment as Donald Trump’s Pravda, will not be surprised to learn that the article is a 5,000-word whitewash. But it is valuable, in this way: It exhibits, albeit inadvertently, the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of the Alt-Right. …
But this is not about the Gang of Eight bill. Most on the Alt-Right do not only reject the “conservative Establishment” or some other contemporary bogeyman; they also reject the ideals of classical liberalism as such. …”
Read it for yourself.
I was expecting a more substantial complaint about our moral and intellectual rot than another version of “I can’t even.”
A few brief points:
1.) For a mainstream conservative, “morality” is synonymous with “respectability” and established norms. In our society, the Left is engaged in a project of perpetual social revolution and sets the ground rules of moral discourse through their control of the media and universities. The role of “conservatives” in this system is to browbeat the Right into conforming to the status quo, not to challenge it.
2.) The moral compass of the mainstream “conservative” is set by the Left give or take a few decades. Yesterday’s fashionable leftist radicalism invariably becomes today’s conservatism. Trump, for example, is objectionable because of his bigotry, racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, nativism, misogyny, etc.
o d–you really are insane–your rantings make no sense because you are trying to hide your agenda–