Thread by @yhazony

In English tradition, the farthest right represents subservience to the laws and ways of foreigners (Rome), while the messianic revolutionary left represents subservience to the laws and ways of foreigners (Geneva).

Moderate Whigs and Tories represent national independence.

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Burke in his day stands for Britain as an independent country. He stands for the traditional British constitution, traditional English laws and freedoms, the monarchy and the English national church.

He also stands for alliance with the Tories to preserve all these things.

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Furthermore, he represents what he called the “Old Whigs” against the new: In favor of experience and tradition. Against the revolutionaries with their abstract deductive systems uprooting all things before them.

And so against Jefferson and Paine and Price and Turgot.

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To me, Burke stands for the possibility of maintaining our own nation and our own inheritance against all odds.

Had it not been for Burke and his allies, Britain might quickly have fallen to the insanity of the revolutionaries in Paris.

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I am troubled by those who wish to resurrect the myth of a universalist rationalism. Whether it is called “Roman law” or the “Universal Rights of Man and the Citizen,” it is the same mistake.

There is no legal system that is fit for all nations. Burke understood this.

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I don’t know if Britain and America will make it. The Revolution is on the verge of victory.

The abandonment of Burke and tradition by many self-proclaimed conservatives is a mistake from which there may be no recovery.

But if there is a recovery, it will be with Burke.

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PS: For those who don’t know my views yet, you can read more here:

americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/what-i…