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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Yes, but he wasn't an apologist for the ancient regime:
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This defines all political parties in the US:
"What conservatism is, then, is a politics of privilege for a mass democratic age."
Conservatism is reactionary. Progressive politics is insurgent. In either case, you've elites, despite their endless profuse denials of that status, asserting "We speak for the common man, whose best interests we serve."
Yin/Yang.
Trump is an interloper only to the extent he bought himself the seat selling a populist narrative. But judged by policy, rather than Tweets, he seems garden variety conservative for the moment.
The Sam Harris/Scott Adams podcast on Trump is brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKIJvOJDrs It's long, and Adams might be truly amoral, but it unpacks everything about Trump that people argue about endlessly. (I love Harris, as he has a "no gotcha questions" rule. Makes interviews and debates so much more candid.)
