The Post-American Right (AKA the “National Conservative”, “Common Good Conservatives”, “New Right”, &c.) are at it again, dressing up their attack on the fundamental American (and Anglospheric, before that) pillars of our culture and society as defending a purported “heritage” that narrowly is only American in that they and/or some ancestor grew up in America but more broadly isn’t uniquely American at all.
No clearer case of this can be found in recent days than a rather convoluted attack by one John Howting, of the “venomous coalition” rant. And what is the crux of what this fool declares to be antithetical to America itself? Why nothing other than “free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.”
You know, those principles that the Heritage Foundation, whose current overlord Howting defends?
Yeah…
But Howting unintentionally reveals himself as being, if not an arsonist of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, than a pyro-by-proxy. If American civilization is burning to the ground, than he cares not about those very pillars that have shaped and made America what it is, the superlative civilization of history, being tokens of his own superficial normalcy at best.
“The best way to understand this rift within Heritage—and in the conservative movement writ large—is to imagine a large manor estate that has been passed down through countless generations of our family, burning down. That burning structure is called Western civilization.”
