Comments on: What’s Right With the Right

By: Michael Pollan reads Dan McCarthy « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:05:55 +0000

[...] is very cool, since I also had the honor of being called out in the post in question, which in turn led me (and Lee) to say things which in turn led other people to say other things, [...]

By: Hippie cons? « A Thinking Reed

Hippie cons? « A Thinking Reed — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:14:57 +0000

[...] Dan McCarthy writes that, along with Ron Paulites, post-industrial localist conservatives are a hopeful sign on the [...]

By: David J

David J — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:47:13 +0000

Nicely done. I am a recovering neo-con myself, and am absolutely disgusted with the hijacking of the Republican party by neo-cons. It happened almost without noticing on my part (and probably Limbaugh’s, Medved’s, Hannity’s, etc. – only they still defend it). I’m anxiously awaiting the release of Justin Raimondo’s new book on reclaiming the Old Right. I hope we can win back the party, because as of now, I almost don’t even recognize it. Thanks a lot, PNAC!

By: Evan McLaren

Evan McLaren — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:55:41 +0000

As we started to leave, Frum smiled. “One of Buckley’s great gifts was the gift of timing,” he said. “To be twenty-five at the beginning and eighty-two at the end! But I’m forty-seven at the end.”

I feel quite timely.

By: What, come November? « Nathancontramundi

What, come November? « Nathancontramundi — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:05:41 +0000

[...] matter in November, at least not directly. But I at least have choices this year, and, even if the Hippies-of-the-Right movement ultimately fails within the collapsing big tent of the GOP, hope exists outside. Long live [...]

By: The young fogey

The young fogey — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:20:56 +0000

Spot-on!

By: Nathan P Origer

Nathan P Origer — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:19:18 +0000

Dan,

Thanks for this post. I find myself with one foot in each of the Hippie/Franciscan of the Right camps (maybe one deeper into the Berry-Pollan camp than the other reaches into the Paulist camp, but in both, nonetheless). Though I doubt I’m the only one in this position, I wonder how many of us exist, and, more important, if a serious new Rightist decentralist coalition can emerge between these groups (and, of course, welcoming various other paleo/decentralist cohorts, although I fear that the more we welcome, the more we risk spreading ourselves too thinly, devolving into a state of persistent in-fighting, and doing little to fight off the Leviathan).

By: dylan waco

dylan waco — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:09:51 +0000

Dan,

I have been trying to make this point for a while. The folks looking for a the Middle American Radical uprising advocated by Donald Warren and Sam Francis can forget it. Most of those folks have either dropped out of the political arena or have dutifully reported to the polls year in and year out to vote for talk radio approved warmongers like Mitt Romney. This is not going to change.

The youth vote is where it is at for a decentralist politics.

Dylan

By: Singled out « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler

Singled out « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:55:30 +0000

[...] Salam, Republicans, Rod Dreher, Ross Douthat, subsidies, Wendell Berry, Yuval Levin Many thanks to Dan for the link and the kind words. I do like to think of what I’m trying to do here and in [...]