Wednesday, November 23, 2022

DeMuth Slams Establo-Pubbies

PowerLine's Hayward shared a bit of a WSJ editorial by Christopher DeMuth, formerly of the American Enterprise Institute, now at Hudson.  Here's the fun part:

...[Many of t]he national conservatives are at the ramparts against the new status quo of woke progressivism in government, the military, business, education, culture and media. Many of them are also dismissive of the conservatism of Buckley & Co. and Ronald Reagan and their legacy of journals, think tanks and policy doctrines that became a settled Washington establishment by the 2000s and 2010s.

In their view, that establishment was complicit in progressivism’s political ascent. American conservatism became unduly attached to libertarian individualism, unfettered markets and free trade as ends in themselves—which helped set the stage for anything-goes cultural corruption, the decline of community, family and religion, and the rise of global corporations and institutions that decimated the American heartland....

Yes.

Yes, indeed.

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