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Another lie-fest: previous guy's intellectual heirs... bwahahaha [1]

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Date: 2022-09-17

The Trump 2024 election brain trust apparently thinks Youngstown Ohio is really Trump country, but only if it continues to resemble a pro wrestling match in an arena that’s barely two-thirds full.

x ICYMI the pre-speech mix at Trump’s rally in Youngstown featured the Undertaker’s music pic.twitter.com/KTkhkPHFvS — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x We know Trump can’t handle his teeny tiny crowd size being shown. So, let’s make this go viral! #TrumpRally #trumprallyohio pic.twitter.com/iDMHDYScH6 — Malarky Free Zone (@ChangeTheSyst14) September 18, 2022

Donald Trump boasted about his 'sold out' Ohio rally on Saturday hours before taking the stage, and said most Republicans 'would lose' their races if not for his endorsement.

Trump is speaking at the 7,000-seat Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio at 7pm - but the 'massive crowd' he bragged about on his Truth Social app only fills about two-thirds of the stadium. www.msn.com/…

x Trump claims he came up with the term "caravans" pic.twitter.com/ueyFgic2Rf — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump claims that aside from him "Republicans are not doing too well" in 2024 polling pic.twitter.com/YI6hgqGVXc — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x another now-regular part of Trump's speeches is calling for the death penalty for drug dealers pic.twitter.com/plsRqBWjYV — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump says he wants to hire more police officers, which is something Republicans voted against last year pic.twitter.com/qVnRCTSXhJ — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump calls Mitch McConnell a "disgrace" and asks JD Vance to do something about it pic.twitter.com/yY0v5rXVg4 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump lies about Democrats supporting the murder of babies pic.twitter.com/akukMKdsCP — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump calls Sean Hannity a "sweetheart" and says JD Vance only said bad things before "he fell in love" with him. He adds that Kim Jong Un fell in love with him too. pic.twitter.com/UmcIU1JDEU — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump's crowd in Youngstown is sitting in silence and could not be more bored pic.twitter.com/Vf61xhvKJk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x Trump on the pee tape: "How would you like to be me and go home and explain that one to my wife. 'Darling it wasn't true, I swear it wasn't!'" pic.twitter.com/dBoGZn7G4c — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x this is one of the most bizarre things I've seen at a Trump rally. All it is missing is passing around Kool-Aid right after. pic.twitter.com/BmPOztb7kA — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

x “JD. is kissing my ass. Of course he wants my support,” Trump told the crowd.” It’s amazing how abjectly Republicans grovel to Trump after he repeatedly demonstrates that no degree of groveling will prevent him from demanding more humiliation https://t.co/Q1mGdGWJlI — Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 18, 2022

At least until recently, classical liberalism—not to be confused with the modern American designation of anyone left of center as “liberal”—was the dominant American tradition. At the most basic level, liberalism is the project of carving out rights, which derive from a recognition of the dignity inherent to every human life. Post-liberal movements, including the national conservatives, aren’t, in principle, opposed to individual rights. The issue is that they believe this conception of liberalism exists only in theory.

In practice, liberalism, animated by a belief in human progress, can’t help but shake free of its past limits, demanding more and more for itself over time. And so the project of carving out rights is ongoing and perpetually in motion, extending itself into new areas—including the right to discard traditional conceptions of gender and sexuality and turning aside the views of anyone who objects. This new liberalism, at once a deformation of liberalism and seemingly its inevitable conclusion, is what Senator Josh Hawley in his conference address called “repressive tolerance” and what the Israeli theorist and conference organizer Yoram Hazony terms “woke neo-Marxism.” For Hazony, the effort to recover “the old liberalism” is futile, an exercise in fighting a battle that has already ended. As someone who studies various iterations of post-liberalism and outright illiberalism, I am intrigued but also worried to see a movement like this gaining ground in my own country. Though the new right may be correct about liberal excesses, its solutions are another matter.

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Like most things in American politics today, the deeper—and perhaps irresolvable—divides are about culture, meaning, and the nature of the human person. The national conservatives view today’s liberals as woke cultural warriors who pose an existential threat to the nation and its traditions. In this sense, the new right is more concerned with who we are—and who we aren’t—than with what Congress does or doesn’t do. This is not an army of would-be policy wonks.

Coherence or specificity is probably too much to ask for, especially at such an early stage in the development of a conservative countercultural movement. And, for now, it’s just that: a movement. And movements can survive and even flourish as long as they have an enemy against which to define themselves. The national conservatives at least have that, and it’s probably enough to sustain them—for now. Opposition is the first step, but it certainly isn’t the last.

www.theatlantic.com/...

x "The struggle to codify Trumpism and transform it into a working philosophy is under way, to mixed results so far," writes @shadihamid:https://t.co/wVJ9KI4zbA — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 18, 2022

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