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Retvrn of the National Conservatives
🕑 Added 2021-11-25 04:16:09 +0000 UTCIt's rare for nearly all the inhabitants of the KYE podcast universe to gather in one place, but it happened earlier this month in—as you might guess—Florida, where the National Conservatism 2 conference was held. The proceedings were littered with extraordinary claims of a "totalitarian cult" (liberals and the left) deliberately trying to destroy the United States, with the help of Big Tech, China, and...university professors. The conference seemed to mark the ascendency of national conservatism on the Right, and perhaps the Republican Party. Matt and Sam break it all down: what it means, what it portends, and why they're wrong.
Sources:
Watch all the National Conservatism conference videos (YouTube)
David Brooks, "The Terrifying Future of the American Right," Atlantic, November 18, 2021
J.G. Ballard, Super Cannes (Picador, 2000)
Murray Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State (David van Nostrand Company/William Volker Fund, 1962)
Background Listening:
Know Your Enemy, "The Definitely Not-Racist National Conservatives," July 30, 2019
"The Rise of the Illiberal Right," July 12, 2019
"Frank Meyer: Father of Fusionism," November 10, 2021
Comments
Jack Wolfe
i don't know how y'all do it... but this is yet another episode where you've taken a topic that's completely unpalatable and made something useful out of it. i've been trying to restrict my political news intake because it's just made me crazy-- KYE is in a different category, because it never fails to leave me a little better able to tolerate all... this stuff. (oh and i wanna give a shout out to the freudisode, too. ceaseless pleasure listening to that one at work.)
Karl Hoaglund
I love you guys so much. You are so smart and kind and funny, and so obviously love each other. You make me laugh out loud as the world ends, and that's a huge gift. (...an example of Matt's observation that none of us are utopians anymore.)
