A brilliant and thoughtful analysis, Deion! Frankly, this is the first I've heard about a "New Right" in the context of recent events, and I agree with your assessment that its exponents haven't contributed to our political/intellectual life nearly long enough to speak for the nation or "the right". I also agree that the right is mainly notable for all the cultural battles it's lost over the last few decades, so the fact that we're showing a little dynamism under Biden isn't something to celebrate too loudly about.
Nice article, Deion! I do think it will be important to ensure that the new right, which often likes to point out the errors in fusionism, doesn't repeat all the same mistakes made then. I haven't read the article (I don't have a NYT subscription, and have no intentions of changing that), but I understand from your summary the concerns you have. I think in a lot of ways the current landscape mirrors the landscape of the Cold War, with international communism replaced by woke corporations and a relentless American bureaucratic state. It makes sense that people of divergent viewpoints will want to work together when told that their children don't belong to them, or that womanhood is undefinable, or that actually some ethnic groups really are bad. Depending on whether these different groups integrate, and the manner in which they do, we could end up with Christian conservatives left out in the cold in a similar manner to how fusionism turned out. But I am cheered that the primary rallying points of the new right are unambiguously things that Christians can cheer (opposition to gender identity and critical race theory seem to be the main elements, more so than any particular view of economics), and if we play our cards right we may be able to convince people that there is a clear link between the decline in religiosity that you point out and the fact that numerous highly-educated elites cannot say what a woman is, something I was capable of doing in preschool. Perhaps what you speak of in your final paragraph is not so far away.
A brilliant and thoughtful analysis, Deion! Frankly, this is the first I've heard about a "New Right" in the context of recent events, and I agree with your assessment that its exponents haven't contributed to our political/intellectual life nearly long enough to speak for the nation or "the right". I also agree that the right is mainly notable for all the cultural battles it's lost over the last few decades, so the fact that we're showing a little dynamism under Biden isn't something to celebrate too loudly about.
Nice article, Deion! I do think it will be important to ensure that the new right, which often likes to point out the errors in fusionism, doesn't repeat all the same mistakes made then. I haven't read the article (I don't have a NYT subscription, and have no intentions of changing that), but I understand from your summary the concerns you have. I think in a lot of ways the current landscape mirrors the landscape of the Cold War, with international communism replaced by woke corporations and a relentless American bureaucratic state. It makes sense that people of divergent viewpoints will want to work together when told that their children don't belong to them, or that womanhood is undefinable, or that actually some ethnic groups really are bad. Depending on whether these different groups integrate, and the manner in which they do, we could end up with Christian conservatives left out in the cold in a similar manner to how fusionism turned out. But I am cheered that the primary rallying points of the new right are unambiguously things that Christians can cheer (opposition to gender identity and critical race theory seem to be the main elements, more so than any particular view of economics), and if we play our cards right we may be able to convince people that there is a clear link between the decline in religiosity that you point out and the fact that numerous highly-educated elites cannot say what a woman is, something I was capable of doing in preschool. Perhaps what you speak of in your final paragraph is not so far away.