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Against the New Post-2016-Trump Right Too

Against the New Post-2016-Trump Right Too

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June 17, 2019

As part of my Neither right nor left mantra, another datum.

Most people use “right” and “left” journalistically: to designate shifting bundles of social-political beliefs and attitudes. The bundles are usually not internally coherent. So more analytic thinkers try to bring order out of mush by identifying multiple dimensions of contrast: individual versus collective, liberty versus authority, majority- versus minority-rule, etc. They abandon the simple one-dimensional left-right spectrum and use Venn Diagrams and other arrays better to capture the realities.

And/or they add adjectives to clarify the genus-species relations. For example, conservatives on the right become traditional conservatives, neo-conservatives, religious conservatives, and so on. And now we have Trump conservatives.

Here’s an important quotation from this helpful article by Matthew Continetti on what the “Trump right” is:

Beginning in 2016, intellectuals who favored Trump have been searching for a new touchstone for conservative thought and politics. These writers are often described as populists, but that label is hard to define. Broadly speaking, they have adopted the banner of nationalism. They believe the nation-state is the core unit of geopolitics and that national sovereignty and independence are more important than global flows of capital, labor, and commodities.

Pulling out the key phrases and their implications:

1. “Flows of labor”: Where and when to apply one’s labor is part of liberty rights.

2. “Flows of capital and commodities”: Where and when to use them are aspects of property rights.

3. “The nation-state is the core unit of geopolitics”: That means the individual is not the core unit of politics and the nation-state merely a proxy  or protector of the individual.

4. Integrating the above with “National sovereignty and independence are more important than …”, we get this result:

The nation is more important than the individual, and the sovereignty of the nation is more important than liberty and property rights.

And that is one more reason why I am not on the right, as much as I am not on the left. Both subordinate/suppress liberty and property rights, and both subordinate the individual to a collective (nation, proletariat, race/gender identity, etc.).

National conservatism is perhaps the best label for this post-2016-Trump package.

Yes, there are differences within conservatism and between conservatives and the left. But national conservatism overlaps with national socialism which overlaps with international socialism. And when drawing the Venn Diagrams to clarify who belongs inside which circle, it’s important to remember that there are other positions completely outside the circles.

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Source:
“Making Sense of the New American Right: Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals.” Matthew Continetti, May 31, 2019)

Related:
“Conservatives Are Not Free-market Capitalists.”
“Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages.”
Both are part of my Open College with Stephen Hicks series.

Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
About the author:
Stephen Hicks Ph.D.

Stephen R. C. Hicks is a Senior Scholar for The Atlas Society and Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University. He is also the Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University.

Il est l'auteur de L'art du raisonnement : Readings for Logical Analysis (W. W. Norton & Co., 1998), Expliquer le postmodernisme : Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy, 2004), Nietzsche et les nazis (Le rasoir d'Ockham, 2010), La vie entrepreneuriale (CEEF, 2016), Le libéralisme pour et contre (Connor Court, 2020), L'art : Moderne, postmoderne et au-delà (avec Michael Newberry, 2021) et Eight Philosophies of Education (2022). Il a publié des articles dans Business Ethics Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics et Le Wall Street Journal. Ses écrits ont été traduits en 20 langues.

Il a été professeur invité en éthique des affaires à l'université de Georgetown à Washington, D.C., chercheur invité au Social Philosophy & Policy Center à Bowling Green, Ohio, professeur invité à l'université de Kasimir le Grand, en Pologne, chercheur invité au Harris Manchester College de l'université d'Oxford, en Angleterre, et professeur invité à l'université Jagiellonian, en Pologne.

Il est titulaire d'une licence et d'une maîtrise de l'université de Guelph, au Canada. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en philosophie de l'université d'Indiana, Bloomington, États-Unis.

En 2010, il a reçu le prix d'excellence en enseignement de son université.

Sa série de podcasts Open College est publiée par Possibly Correct Productions, à Toronto. Ses conférences et entretiens vidéo sont en ligne sur CEE Video Channel, et son site web est StephenHicks.org.  


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