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The Answer To Demoralizing GOP Failures Is Not Burning The Country Down

A Right that knowingly worsens the conditions of its own recovery is not playing the long game nor accelerating victory. It is forfeiting it.

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The “New Right,” as various right-wing organizations have called it, is not on the same page as the old guard. The New Right’s image of America stands in sharp contrast to what the neoconservative wing of the Grand Old Party has built over the last several decades.

Where the old GOP often treated the country as an abstract proposition to be managed through markets, military strength, and procedural consensus, the New Right sees a nation strained by demographic upheaval, institutional capture, cultural fragmentation, and a ruling class unwilling or unable to defend the people and inheritance that made America what it was. The GOP must not ignore these distinctions, as they reflect a genuine dissatisfaction with the governance of both parties over the previous 65 years.

While the dissension with the Left is obvious, the dissatisfaction with the Republican Party is rooted in the fact that conservative officeholders seem to have only an interest in conserving the last 65 years of liberal policy, some of which created the mess we are currently in. Take the Civil Rights Act, Hart-Celler Act, North American Free Trade Agreement, PATRIOT Act, Iraq War resolution, and other pillars of a bipartisan ruling consensus that knowingly subordinated the historic American nation to ideological abstractions, managerial interests, and elite priorities.  

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