The weirdest thing I've seen is the effort to combine a sort of anarcho-libertarianism (more decentralization, less "conformity," smash the institutions ) with a theocratic ethno-nationalism in which everyone is happily unified under one religion and everyone has a strong sense of belonging.
The weirdest thing I've seen is the effort to combine a sort of anarcho-libertarianism (more decentralization, less "conformity," smash the institutions ) with a theocratic ethno-nationalism in which everyone is happily unified under one religion and everyone has a strong sense of belonging.
The anarcho-liberalism is part of the economic side of the ideology, NOT the cultural side.
When you destroy or weaken the public institutions and government you create the conditions that free up those who possess wealth and power... and that enslave those without wealth and power.
A lot of the little people behind that agenda (like the evangelicals and white supremacists) don't understand that... because their eye is on the cultural, not the economic (despite their protestations to the contrary).
I should add: I'm speaking of people who have said that Trump was the first GOP presidential candidate in decades who really cared about average working Americans, and who have railed against wealthy elites. But they're cool with the crypto-billionaires who are sticking it to the Establishment.
It's basically: "We need to destroy the institutions that THEY control, and build new ones more to our liking, controlled by people who think the way we do." Not exactly Burkean conservatism.
It's instrumentally on the cultural side too: smash the institutions, then rebuild them. And some of these people will also say we need more social solidarity in economics -- but just don't tell THEM what to do. IOW, it's incoherent.
In other words, as a society, we're going back to the Gilded Age and Robber Barons instead of the 21st century. We've been doing that since Reagan convinced people that, friendly father that he was, it was right for the rich to take over.
The weirdest thing I've seen is the effort to combine a sort of anarcho-libertarianism (more decentralization, less "conformity," smash the institutions ) with a theocratic ethno-nationalism in which everyone is happily unified under one religion and everyone has a strong sense of belonging.
The anarcho-liberalism is part of the economic side of the ideology, NOT the cultural side.
When you destroy or weaken the public institutions and government you create the conditions that free up those who possess wealth and power... and that enslave those without wealth and power.
A lot of the little people behind that agenda (like the evangelicals and white supremacists) don't understand that... because their eye is on the cultural, not the economic (despite their protestations to the contrary).
I should add: I'm speaking of people who have said that Trump was the first GOP presidential candidate in decades who really cared about average working Americans, and who have railed against wealthy elites. But they're cool with the crypto-billionaires who are sticking it to the Establishment.
It's basically: "We need to destroy the institutions that THEY control, and build new ones more to our liking, controlled by people who think the way we do." Not exactly Burkean conservatism.
It's instrumentally on the cultural side too: smash the institutions, then rebuild them. And some of these people will also say we need more social solidarity in economics -- but just don't tell THEM what to do. IOW, it's incoherent.
In other words, as a society, we're going back to the Gilded Age and Robber Barons instead of the 21st century. We've been doing that since Reagan convinced people that, friendly father that he was, it was right for the rich to take over.
Exactly