When I was first invited to the blog, I was a bit jarred by the title because it might cast me as being more “on the right” than I was necessarily prepared.  Only after we started did I realize that it did not mean “post” as in blog post but “post” as in after or beyond.

I thought about all of this after my bona fides were challenged the first day online.  For the record, I am not a “state socialist” – my position is that classical social democracy, and particularly its Jewish expression which is a family legacy, was a beautiful and honorable movement of the past with no relevance to the modern world.  I have my views regarding the paradox of that platform having more historically in common with our conservatism than just about any historic conservatism (pre-World War II at any rate), hopefully I’ll be able to discuss them in TAC before very long.

At any rate, I feel the need to spell this out and embarrass myself with further personal exculpation in seeing all the other affirmations on this blog that its theme is to be post-”conservative movement” more than anything, and also just now after finally reading the last print issue.

I guess I just wanted to get all of that off my chest and record my assent to what seems to be the consensus that true conservatism needs to place itself firmly outside of movement politics.