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user-inactivated  ·  3593 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the Right Doesn't Win

Eh... a conservative magazine, but not a Republican one. The articles in it are too long for modern Republicans (or Democrats) to read. This is, in short, a magazine whose audience barely exists now and will not exist at all in a few decades.

The relatively sane old guard of the GOP, as demonstrated in the article, is dying out. The party of Burke.





user-inactivated  ·  3593 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If half the Republicans who pose for pictures with Atlas Shrugged actually read it, I wouldn't say anything was too long for them. I couldn't get through Atlas Shrugged.

user-inactivated  ·  3593 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I got through it, pointlessly.

You've indirectly provided evidence for my point, which is that modern Republicans are essentially libertarians, not conservatives.

EDIT: especially those under 30.

user-inactivated  ·  3593 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If the Republicans were serious libertarians they wouldn't be so enthusiastic about restricting sexual minorities, or regulating women's reproductive health. They've adopted libertarian iconography and rhetoric, but only because it sells better outside of their dwindling base than religious nuttery, dogwhistle racism and stodgy old paternalism.

user-inactivated  ·  3592 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a camp of young Republicans who aren't terribly serious about those things, as far as I can tell. It's a bit of a muddle. And then of course there's immigration.