“As regards the highest good, the founders recognized that the natural human inclination toward a transcendent source of existence—as often moved by conscience—ought to receive special protection under our legal instruments.” - @fbeckwith https://t.co/3itLr3osBC
— The American Mind (@theammind) May 27, 2020
Because the habits of some “Nietzscheanized right-wing nihilists,” as Thompson labels them, along with many other sub-groups these days, do not cultivate in the soul the proper conditions for freedom, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness, what results is not a free people who are capable of limited self-government and participating with moral integrity in a market economy, but rather, a mob of “independent” minds enslaved by their own unruly appetites. It is clear that Thompson recognizes this. Otherwise, he would not lament the threat that this nihilistic movement poses to the future of American conservatism.A rather judgmental lot, are we?
I share Thompson’s affection for the founders and classical liberalism, as well as his loathing of the alt-Right nihilists.
Have either of these two academics meet a "alt-right" person in real life?
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