New version of Jewish-Catholic Conservatism just dropped. No doubt, this one will be even more successful than 1.0. 
I don’t say this to express any WASP resentment—that we’ve been barred from the conservative club, and have been for 70 years. Though I’m sure there’s a little bit of that…
One of the most important trends in the history of postwar “Conservatism” is the rise of Catholic intellectuals—Buckley being paradigmatic—herding a White Protestant voting base (“Religious Right”).
WASPs are clearly in decline, but the more successful ones have chosen the path of liberalism; in that way, they’ve been more successful than the Catholic Right, which has, self-consciously, chosen the path of “losing with grace” and LARPing as “traditionalists.”
N.B.: the Jewish intellectuals on the Right are the only ones who are actually interesting and valuable. There’s a lot to learn from, say, Leo Strauss. The Catholics…not so much. With no exceptions, they are pale imitations or simply vacuous. Buckley, again, set the standard.
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