Conservatism Is Dead, Cons Say, Cuz America Is 'Rotten To The Core' Fascism, Power, Democracy End

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- Daily Kos, Sept. 23, 2021. - Ed.

On Tuesday, a 2-page memo was revealed in which attorney John Eastman detailed a plan for overthrowing the election & handing the nation to Donald Trump in an authoritarian coup. This week, the American Political Science Society is giving Eastman a pair of speaking gigs to talk about the “the 2020 elections & the state of American conservatism” along with “the Supreme Court’s current & future direction.” In addition to this plum assignment, Eastman remains a chairman at the Federalist Society, a board member at the Claremont Institute, & a director of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. As a top member of the Federalist Society, Eastman is perfectly positioned to talk about the future direction of the Supreme Court.

Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett were all hand-selected by the Federalist Society. Claremont, where Eastman serves on the board, has been named as the Republican “think tank” that has done more than any other to “build a philosophical case for Trump’s brand of conservatism.” Claremont is also the source of a recent manifesto declaring that “most people living in the US today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.” Which certainly explains the state of conservatism. If the Public Interest Legal Fnd. isn’t as familiar as the first 2, don’t worry—it’s not about anything reasonable. The Public Interest Legal Fnd. exists as a front for Republicans to sue local & state governments demanding that voters be purged from election rolls. So it fits right in.

In most nations, being caught red-handed outlining a coup has some negative repercussions. In the US, it’s the definition of a conservative all-star because conservatism no longer has anything to do with fiscal policy, or social policy, or any other kind of policy. It only has to do with power. Or, as the conservatives are more than willing to explain, conservatism is dead. In his explanation of why most of America isn’t America, Eastman’s fellow board member Glenn Ellmers doesn’t shy away from making it clear that being a modern conservative isn’t about holding any policy position. These are things that concern “intellectuals, journalists, & the world of think tanks,” but in terms of the movement that the Claremont Inst. & others are pushing, all of this is “a distraction” & “mostly irrelevant.”

Political positions simply don’t play into what they’re about. The same thing is true of the GOP, as “apart from Trump, the party does not really care“ about the people who want to restore “the one, authentic America.” Conservatism, say the conservatives, is dead. That’s because “the original America is more or less gone.” There’s no point trying to conserve anything because “mainline churches, universities, popular culture, & the corporate world are rotten to the core.” This isn’t a fight about politics. No modern conservative is genuinely concerned about the national debt, or devoting one second to thinking about the best way to deal with Social Security. All that is done.

What Ellmers is calling for isn’t a fight over policies, or a fight at the polls, but simply a fight. “Learn some useful skills, stay healthy, and get strong,”...

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