J.D. Vance (quoted)

Those are unique American ideals, and that's what I believe makes American exceptionalism possible. That, I believe, is our identity.

Those are unique American ideals, and that's what I believe makes American exceptionalism possible. That, I believe, is our identity.

Those are unique American ideals, and that's what I believe makes American exceptionalism possible. That, I believe, is our identity.

I agree with you. So I think you and I are actually even more similar than I know we're pretty similar in our perspective. I think, so there's another interesting observation to make about these sort of two branches of the conservative movement here. We just talked about sort of the content of the differences. I think there's another difference, though, that kind of complicates this.

I agree with you. So I think you and I are actually even more similar than I know we're pretty similar in our perspective. I think, so there's another interesting observation to make about these sort of two branches of the conservative movement here. We just talked about sort of the content of the differences. I think there's another difference, though, that kind of complicates this.

I agree with you. So I think you and I are actually even more similar than I know we're pretty similar in our perspective. I think, so there's another interesting observation to make about these sort of two branches of the conservative movement here. We just talked about sort of the content of the differences. I think there's another difference, though, that kind of complicates this.

If I heard between the lines correctly, tell me if I did, was sort of your implicit critique of the post-libertarian right might relate to this, which is that the libertarian right can sort of argumentatively joust according to first principles. Okay, that there's a set of principles that, you know, maybe at risk of being completely blind to present realities.

If I heard between the lines correctly, tell me if I did, was sort of your implicit critique of the post-libertarian right might relate to this, which is that the libertarian right can sort of argumentatively joust according to first principles. Okay, that there's a set of principles that, you know, maybe at risk of being completely blind to present realities.

If I heard between the lines correctly, tell me if I did, was sort of your implicit critique of the post-libertarian right might relate to this, which is that the libertarian right can sort of argumentatively joust according to first principles. Okay, that there's a set of principles that, you know, maybe at risk of being completely blind to present realities.

And a combination of not just the blindness, but the lack of courage is actually what I call it, to take up the full extent of what you actually believe, right? Okay, somehow the Civil Rights Act and the protected classes are sacrosanct and we can't touch them. But we're going to pretend like

And a combination of not just the blindness, but the lack of courage is actually what I call it, to take up the full extent of what you actually believe, right? Okay, somehow the Civil Rights Act and the protected classes are sacrosanct and we can't touch them. But we're going to pretend like

And a combination of not just the blindness, but the lack of courage is actually what I call it, to take up the full extent of what you actually believe, right? Okay, somehow the Civil Rights Act and the protected classes are sacrosanct and we can't touch them. But we're going to pretend like

the free market starts where those end, while actually having the law create the very conditions for viewpoint-based discrimination, deplatforming, firing, whatever else it is. And same thing, by the way, we'll take the ESG-driven control of capital markets as given, but then somehow any push against that movement... Everything outside of that is free market.

the free market starts where those end, while actually having the law create the very conditions for viewpoint-based discrimination, deplatforming, firing, whatever else it is. And same thing, by the way, we'll take the ESG-driven control of capital markets as given, but then somehow any push against that movement... Everything outside of that is free market.

the free market starts where those end, while actually having the law create the very conditions for viewpoint-based discrimination, deplatforming, firing, whatever else it is. And same thing, by the way, we'll take the ESG-driven control of capital markets as given, but then somehow any push against that movement... Everything outside of that is free market.

Yeah, everything outside of that is free market, that we have to flash-freeze the present and then assume here and forward. That model doesn't work, so we talked about that. The problem with much of the, you know, the post-libertarian right or what you could call lowercase p populist right or whatever, is that it doesn't rest on a philosophy or set of principles.

Yeah, everything outside of that is free market, that we have to flash-freeze the present and then assume here and forward. That model doesn't work, so we talked about that. The problem with much of the, you know, the post-libertarian right or what you could call lowercase p populist right or whatever, is that it doesn't rest on a philosophy or set of principles.

Yeah, everything outside of that is free market, that we have to flash-freeze the present and then assume here and forward. That model doesn't work, so we talked about that. The problem with much of the, you know, the post-libertarian right or what you could call lowercase p populist right or whatever, is that it doesn't rest on a philosophy or set of principles.

It's an emotion that is frustrated, correctly so, by the way, with the failures of courage and the failures of eye-opening, of opening one's eyes of the classical conservative sort of neoliberal right, neoliberarian right, but also frustrated with the actual victory, the winning that you refer to on the left.

It's an emotion that is frustrated, correctly so, by the way, with the failures of courage and the failures of eye-opening, of opening one's eyes of the classical conservative sort of neoliberal right, neoliberarian right, but also frustrated with the actual victory, the winning that you refer to on the left.