Perhaps it was inevitable that the conservative coalition would fall apart. The alliance between free-marketeers and religious traditionalists was, after all, contingent. It was always going to struggle to survive the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Many cultural conservatives seem happier these days mocking libertarians than criticizing leftists. The trads call the free-marketeers “right-liberals,” deliberately blurring two separate meanings of the word “liberal.” In its traditional sense, the sense still used in most of the world, liberalism means support for property rights, free contracts, and limited government. In the United States and its cultural satellites, it is a synonym for “Left-wing.
We can forget how recently the Democrats and Republicans began to divide on Left/Right lines. Well into the 1960s, party allegiances were as much regional and hereditary as doctrinal. Only from Richard Nixon’s time can we properly regard the two parties as coherent ideological groupings. Once those victories were won, some libertarians no longer wanted to march alongside those they regarded as big-state religious nuts; and some trads no longer wanted to associate with those they regarded as crazed enthusiasts of drugs and pornography. The alloy began to melt into its two component metals.
Taking that argument to its extreme, Dr. Chad Pecknold of the Catholic University of America argues that wokeness is a “super-heresy” comparable to Arianism or Albigensianism, that it cannot be defeated in a market of ideas, and that it must be stamped out. Think about what he implies. Arianism was extirpated when Constantine the Great ordered that anyone found in possession of its texts be put to death.
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