Unsurprisingly, this is an incredibly disingenuous piece about the so-called "lifestyle right". The label is wishful thinking, an attempt to put people like me in a box, and mislead people about the kind of project we're advocating. 👇
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1610609606635446272
"Lifestyle rightism" is "an unhelpful trend". It's basically a mirror image of "lifestyle leftism". Think identity politics, i.e. the new leftism which has abandoned the traditional political and economic concerns of the old left. That's us, but on the right. Greta but based. 
Lifestyle rightism diverts us from "collective action and the shared pursuit of common goods". It's basically consumerist navel-gazing. Thankfully, unlike on the left, it's largely found "on the online fringes".
Sohrab chooses some strange examples. Andrew Tate and crypto first. Then "new-frontier-ism", which is basically the anon sphere, as he makes clear.
It would help if he actually wanted to engage with the work of writers like myself, because Sohrab would very quickly learn that I don't advocate an apolitical solution. In fact, a significant portion of my new book, The Eggs Benedict Option, is devoted to...
the development of a new political movement in the US that would break the corporate stranglehold on American life and allow a new nationalism, built on local food sovereignty, to emerge. I talk explicitly about the 19th century populism whose importance he claims is missing...
from the discussions of homestead Twitter (n.b. I am not a homesteader). None of what I write in the book is an "ahistorical reverie". Many of us are trying to grapple with the "hard reality" of how to solve the most pressing issues that face us today.
All of which is to say, this article is just gatekeeping 101, designed to prevent "conservatives" from engaging with people outside the designated channels.
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