🧵 1/4“Several speakers articulated a vision of the United States where domestic manufacturing is not only revived and globalization reigned in, but where traditional Christian morality is restored to a central place in society and mainstream culture . . .”
https://twitter.com/ncronline/status/1581967010204110849
2/4 In current studies of the New Right or Far Right little attention is placed on traditionalism as an ideology of worldbuilding. Scholars mention “trads” but often fail to move beyond aesthetics or theology. This is a problem. Traditionalism is a political ideology.
3/4 This is why American far right actors often look abroad to political leaders touting trad values. Orban. Putin. They want to remake society in the image of an edenic past that never was. I’ve written a lot about this, including its links to fascism. tinyurl.com/3a74crnm
4/4 Recently at the @VolosAcademy1 conference I gave a lecture about how traditionalism helps build far right worlds.
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