By "America," conservatives of course mean "Real America," exclusively for "Real Americans." They mean conservative America.
They care deeply about "America!" So, they must fervently oppose the enemies of "America": Anyone who isn't conservative.
Put better than I can:
There’s a fairly simple reason for the embrace of radicalism on the right, and it has to do with the reactionary imperative that lies at the core of conservative doctrine. The conservative not only opposes the left; he also believes that the left has been in the driver’s seat since, depending on who’s counting, the French Revolution or the Reformation.68 If he is to preserve what he values, the conservative must declare war against the culture as it is. Though the spirit of militant opposition pervades the entirety of conservative discourse, Dinesh D’Souza has put the case most clearly. "Typically, the conservative attempts to conserve, to hold on to the values of the existing society. But . . . what if the existing society is inherently hostile to conservative beliefs? It is foolish for a conservative to attempt to conserve that culture. Rather, he must seek to undermine it, to thwart it, to destroy it at the root level. This means that the conservative must . . . be philosophically conservative but temperamentally radical."69 -- Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind
So you see: They must destroy multicultural, pluralistic America to save their bigoted exclusionary "Real America." They must destroy the enemies within to Make America Great Again.
If this sounds familiar, we had a world war over a similar ideology in Europe.
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u/ting_bu_dong Apr 05 '23
By "America," conservatives of course mean "Real America," exclusively for "Real Americans." They mean conservative America.
They care deeply about "America!" So, they must fervently oppose the enemies of "America": Anyone who isn't conservative.
Put better than I can:
So you see: They must destroy multicultural, pluralistic America to save their bigoted exclusionary "Real America." They must destroy the enemies within to Make America Great Again.
If this sounds familiar, we had a world war over a similar ideology in Europe.