Loading ...‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’
Republican politicians are embracing the “postliberal” ideas of Patrick Deneen. But just what is he calling for?
The movement doesn’t have a unified ideology, but almost all its members have bought into the central argument of Deneen’s book: that liberalism — the political system designed to protect individual rights and expand individual liberties — is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions. In pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, Deneen argues, liberalism has instead delivered the opposite: widening material inequality, the breakdown of local communities and the unchecked growth of governmental and corporate power.
the country is split into two warring camps: “the Party of Progress” — a group of liberal and conservative elites who advocate for social and economic “progress” — and the “Party of Order,” a coalition of non-elites who support a populist agenda that combines support for unions and robust checks on corporate power with extensive limits on abortion, a prominent role for religion in the public sphere and far-reaching efforts to eradicate “wokeness.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/08/the-new-right-patrick-deneen-00100279
“He saw that a window was opening for critics of liberalism to articulate a vision of an alternative regime in which conservatives presided over a strong central state.”
I have no idea if this point of view owes to his Catholic roots, but it may. The whole point of the Reformation was for a push toward the DEVOLUTION of power from the Vatican and the Bishops to the local church pastors and to the parishioners themselves, directly.
And this runs parallel to the theme that Kuntsler and Charles Hugh Smith also advocate. Localism and devolution of power.
No … I think this guy is way off base (from my point of view).
It will be important to see who buys into his ideas, beyond those mentioned in this article.