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MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next?

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MAGA’s Dead. What’s Next? True liberalism is a right-wing ideology. MAGA died, the Iran war killed it, and a resurrection isn’t likely. So argues Christopher Caldwell, a titan of intellectual conservatism, in a recent piece on Donald Trump for the Spectator. “The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base, so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national inte...
The article presents a compelling case for right-liberalism as a post-MAGA conservative ideology, but its strength lies in its theoretical framing rather than empirical evidence. The author effectively steelmans the argument by grounding it in canonical political theory, using Hobbes, Hegel, and Nietzsche to legitimize the idea that liberty requires social order. This is a sophisticated move, appealing to intellectual conservatism while distancing itself from Trump's populist excesses. However, ...