Monday, April 27, 2020

Rod Dreher Responds to Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: "Call it the Tucker Carlson Wing of the GOP" The American Conservative Watns to Be the Atlantic of the Right

Dreher: The Culture War: Why We Still Fight

But we should never, ever allow ourselves to be gaslit by liberals or libertarians who tell us that nobody cares about this stuff anymore, so we should just drop it. 

Nor, for that matter, should we allow ourselves to be gaslit by figures within Religious Conservatism, Inc., who insist that we are within one election, and one Supreme Court appointment, from “victory.” It’s not true, and it was never true, and believing that the culture war was primarily a political and legal conflict was a massive strategic error of an entire generation, from which we have yet to recover. Going forward, the most important work of the culture war will be mounting guerrilla resistance within a culture whose dominant institutions were long ago captured by the other side.

Related:
The New Right, the Benedict Option, and a Second Look at Waco by Arthur Bloom
What the biggest Clinton-era law enforcement scandal can tell us about conservative challenges ahead.

Coincidentally, I later found this tweet, written by someone associated with Catholic Herald and posing as a moderate I suppose:

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