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conservative politics used to legitimate itself by claiming to be more descriptive than that of the left.
it is obvious that this is not longer important to the folk who run the right ideology machine.
conservatism in its non-militant form was about the protection of a status quo that actually existed in the empirical world.
populist american conservatism is as much about the imposition of an illusion of what already exists, an imposition of positions particular to far right evangelicals.
you would have thought that the history of the 20th century would caution against revolutionary conservative movements. but last time around, each movement thought that it was an exception to the pattern because the others had not quite gotten it right enough. this time, you get the veneer of far right protestant discourse to conceal the parallels between this revolutionary conservative movement and its predecessors.
this american right is not really a conservative movement at all.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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