Decline of the Right

“Those of us who retain the skepticism about ambitious government that once seemed to define the right are ceaselessly told that we are obsolete. We do not, the cliché has it, know ‘what time it is.’” - Cranach

“The White House Religious Liberty Commission was right to remove a member who derailed hearings with anti-Semitic antics” - World

“Both sides hate the ‘establishment.’… A related commonality is both side’s hatred of institutions. The Left is skeptical of institutions like marriage, parenthood, laws, institutional religion, corporations, the government.

“One moral/theological issue that is now rising to the top of the list for us is the attitude of the church toward Israel and the rise of antisemitism in professing Christianity. Many fundamental Baptist church members are avid followers of Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others.

“This article isn’t a justification for Gen Z’s political trajectory, nor is it an endorsement. Think of it as reconnaissance. This is a trip into the mindset of a generation that feels betrayed—and into the ideologues who have successfully captured that frustration and weaponized it.” - CPost

“When the young and activist militants on the disaffected Right reduce Winston Churchill to the status of a dangerous forerunner of neoconservative foreign policy, or see in Ronald Reagan nothing but a sterile libertarianism—ignoring his courage and determination to defeat the scourge of communist totalitarianism, and his eloquent appeals to faith, community, and patriotic devotion to country—or facilely dismiss the pugnacious and brilliant William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Others are more cautious in their assessment of how far antisemitism has infiltrated the political right. Yet evangelical commentators agree that followers of Jesus must stem the tide.” - Baptist Press

“There was… a then-newly emergent group on the right towards which Tocqueville adopted a position of polite but unambiguous opposition. If we were to ascribe these individuals a contemporary label, ‘altright’ or even ‘groyper’ would perhaps be the most apt. For like these contemporary far-rightists, such thinkers embraced a highly racialized view of the world.” - L&L

“They all share this common idea that in order to defeat the Left, conservatives must join forces with people like Carlson, Owens, Fuentes, and Tate. Conservatives who refuse to do so are accused of causing division.” - CPost