The problem with conservatism: Putting university endowments on the hook for student loan debt would not only offer a solution to an issue for younger voters, but it would inevitably result in the closer of many universities which conservatives claim to hate 1/
https://twitter.com/Dansnodgrass/status/1332891461512212482
Universities, conservatives complain, are the locus of critical race and gender theory, of antifa and BLM, of the overproduction of woke "elites." Conservatives, who always claim to be about the culture war, have a stone in front of them capable of knocking out several birds 2/
But their adherence to free market dogma, to libertarian principles, to broke "business conservatism" is like a gag reflex that prevents them from drinking the right stuff at the right moment. So they ironically take the side of the universities in this fight 3/
Which is one of the reasons why contemporary conservatism will never win the culture wars it LARPs about fighting. It is at bottom about conserving institutions and things, not fundamentally changing them, as they claim to want to do 4/
Put universities on the hook with their endowments and end student loans to boot? Nope. Something something markets principles 5/
Re my first tweet: *closure. RIP 6/
Conservatism is basically complain porn, insofar that it complains about a whole bunch of stuff but pulls back from the implications of the solutions to the problems conservatives gripe about. "Whoa, that's crazy, can't we just do a more moderate version of this problem?" 7/
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