Thread by @Tinkzorg

Here, Dreher inadvertedly illustrates why anti-wokeness is kind of a doomed strategy. Liberals aren't merely being woke, they are fighting tooth and nail to eliminate rivals of their own children in an increasingly harsh environment.

theamericanconservative.com/dreher/schools…

Ironically, the rhetorical pro-natalism of the right would just be throwing gasoline on a fire here. At least the libs claim to believe in having few children, and then just engage in a vicious game of musical chairs to secure the future of those kids.

Given the class background of a lot of conservatism, inc, victory in the culture war would itself be a kind of defeat: they are under the same pressures to help their kids retain their upper middle class positions as the libs. Take away wokeness and you'll need a replacement.

Moreover, the anti-woke people in this story aren't actually anti-woke, they are anti their kids not getting a chair in the game of musical chairs. You won't get them onside if you can't give them a chair, and the right has no better way of doing that than the libs!

I find it *extremely* revealing that the word from the capital R Radicals on here is "uh of course you should go to college" and "uh of course I, i mean you, deserve a very high paying white collar job". Oh, really? Two thirds of the US live outside this world, buddy!

But clearly, those people have no real voice in the proceedings. Most radicals are just nursing their wounded pride at being *fucked* by the more ruthless libs in the game of musical chairs.

Others harbor fanciful - incredibly foolish - ideas of harnessing middle americans as disposable fodder to wrest back one of the chairs the libs "stole" for the benefit of themselves or their kids. It's not going to work because there's nothing in it for the putative pawns.

Putting all of this together, the losers of this round of elite downscaling are very unlikely to be politically relevant for long. They offer putative clients nothing more than an unpaid intern position in the project of securing someone's else's kid a white collar future.

Everyone was at one point very hype for the project of making the working classes of the west the new muscle for a new right. But everywhere that project is basically at stall speed. The contradiction between the "general class" and the "soldiers" they hope to use won't go away.

Honestly, there's a billion gemerals and colonels to every ill-fated private right now, and that ain't gonna change until you start paying the soldiers in scrip that's actually valuable to them. Making it easier for *your* kids to get into Harvard is not useful scrip.

Like right now you have this dumb tug of war over Trump and whether he is based enough to still run or if it's tactically unwise or whatever. Lost in this torrent of totally useless discussion, however, is the mention of ANY sort of material political cause or issue he's for.

What the fuck is Trump even about in 2024, other than some vague notion of owning the libs? Building a wall? Reshoring industry? Going to war with china? Implementing a child allowance? Fighting inflation? What?

These things are basically no longer discussed because the internal contradictions within the right (between the GOP electorate and the donors, between the interest of white collar leadership and blue collar base) are so pressing that addreasing these issues would cause splits.

Youngkin, this amazing "success story" and "sign of a turning tide" in the war against wokeness is basically a sign of how gangrenous the coalition is. You can't square the circle of totally contradictory political directions here for long.