In the 2020s, “conservatism” sounds passé, and its failure is taken for granted. A new right finds inspiration less in Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke than in Carl Schmitt, and the history of the conservative movement up to 2016 seems largely irrelevant to everything that’s happened since then. Rip van Winkle slept through a revolution and awoke to find himself in a different country. Yet a generation of conservatives who had their eyes wide open the whole time is no less bewildered than Rip was about what’s happened to their country and their movement.
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