Why the right needs a more "muscular" and "masculine" conservatism

The overarching issue is that the Fusionism of Conservatism, Inc., as a structural matter and due to the very nature of the liberal order on which it is necessarily dependent, is incapable of resisting the Left’s “long march through the institutions,” let alone positing its own substantive vision of a good society and the good life. And it is incapable of doing so because it improperly relies upon the illusion of a values-neutral liberal order—a values-neutral free market, a values-neutral town square and a values-neutral U.S. Constitution—to secure its “private” culture at the same time that the progressive Left champs at the bit to remold the nation in its dystopian image and subjugate us “deplorables” into second-class citizens.

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History has shown that a values-neutral liberal order amounts to a one-way cultural ratchet. The wokesters are all too happy to fill the ever-larger void left behind by a “naked” public square. Indeed, the wokesters are abetted by Fusionist right-liberals who refuse to inject any sense of overt value or morality into the national fabric as a matter of high-minded principle, and who instead prefer the relative governing safety of slashing taxes and regulations and calling it a day. In a nutshell, the Left knows precisely which (immoral) values it stands for, and it aggressively seeks to advance and disseminate those values. Against such an unrestrained adversary, Fusionism’s plea for liberal procedural neutrality rings hollow.

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