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Conservatism’s Damaging Game of Footsie with the Alt-Right

Jonah Goldberg famously claims that the Nazi and Fascist movements were actually leftist because the right in its essence reveres and protects the untrammeled market and the independence and power of corporations and plutocrats.

That is the meaning of "the right" to the faux conservatives of the United States of Amnesia, a country that was governed by an institutionally secular republic from birth and that never after had to endure or rebel against even lingering traces of a hereditary monarchy and aristocracy with Lords both Temporal and Spiritual.

Anyway, this narrow-minded radical who lies to himself that he and those like him are conservatives wrote this.

During the campaign, when Trump attacked the ethnicity of an American judge or the parents of a fallen Muslim U.S. soldier, the response from his defenders on the right was usually, “At least he fights!” 

Such amorality was warranted, many explained, because if Clinton had won, America would be “over.” 

National-security official Michael Anton, then writing from the safety of anonymity, dubbed it a “Flight 93 election” and argued that conservatives must do anything for victory or accept certain death. 

In an interview with New York magazine, Anton went further. 

“If we must have Caesar,” he said, “who do you want him to be? One of theirs? Or one of yours (ours)?” 

The election is over. 

Yet that spirit not only endures, it has intensified. 

Trump’s conservative critics, or “apostates” as Conrad Black calls us, face the same ultimatum. 

“The choice, for sane conservatives,” Black writes, “is Trump or national disaster.”