I just want to say, this is phenomenal work! I hadn't previously been Is aware of so many important individuals involved with National Review for example. Again, thank you for the phenomenal work you do!
It's interesting that despite the US having two minor parties the Libertarians on the right and the Greens on the left those minor parties still fall in line with the party ideology of either modern conservatism or new deal liberalism. I think it's also at this point when world politics has much more of an effect on US politics. It's at this point that the US becomes a world power and the leftward push of European left wing parties all have the same ideology to new deal liberals.
Thanks! I couldn't agree more. There were some major technical problems I had to deal with and get fixed that delayed the series for far too long. I have a lot of film already done and waiting to get assembled. So more is coming.
Given the change that occurred to the Republican Party in the aftermath of Goldwater's loss (ultimately embracing the ideals that his candidacy represented), might it be apt to say that the Democratic Party took the opposite tack instead as a consequence of McGovern's loss?
Idea for the next party system's central question: how do we manage a post-industrial society? This includes issues of declining birthrates and attitudes towards immigration, (demographics) How should we deal with megacorporations that use technology to exert control over our lives (oligopolies), How to take care of our population as the US's global standing and standard of living decreases, and how to reverse it (material concerns), How to conduct ourselves on the world stage, and our involvement with the world system (foreign policy) How to deal with the effects of climate change (green policy) And how to adjust society morally through social issues in order to solve polarization and ensure the fabric that holds society together remains intact. Two sides of this are NATIONALISTS (america first plus the centrist democrats) and the GLOBALISTS (the old business republicans and neoliberal moderate democrats). Remove the associated connotations of those terms because they will mean something different. It will be interesting where the modern PROGRESSIVES fall, because they have conflicting policy in this party system
I so glad you're back. Can't wait for your next video. Some of the stuff that you describe about the conservative movement I think about the movement started by Bernie Sanders. There are some clear similarities. I wonder where you think it will go from here.
One of the most interesting things about the conservative movement is that it's an actual social movement. So I agree. There are big similarities with how social movements operate. It just confuses people because, over time with its success at politics, "conservative movement" started to get used as merely a synonym for the Republican Party. Which it wasn't when it began, and in many ways still is not.
Glad to see a new video. By this point isn't the new deal the conservative position? Because it feels like it is to me with the new conservatives being closer to a new wave of reformism rather than reactionaries. Also i'm really curious how you will handle the series going forward because in the era of the struggle of civil rights up to now the conservative position espoused by this new movement becomes progressively more bankrupt and indefensible.
Thanks! Over next few episode we're going to be talking about the shift to moral politics, first in history, then in the 1960s and 1970s. Because a lot of what happened is really tied up in applying political philosophies designed to deal with economic questioned during the New Deal to new social and moral questions, with tumultuous results.
Oddly enough, we’re now seeing thought leaders in the National Conservative movement like Sohrab Ahmari and Adrian Vermeule explicitly claiming the legacy of the New Deal for their own.
Thanks, I agree! It was a crazy summer followed by major technical issues that took me way too long time to get fixed. I actually have a backlog of raw film for the next few episodes already done and just waiting to get assembled. So more is coming!
It think it very depends on what you mean by change. The interesting thing about the twentieth-century conservative movement is that it was frequently quite experimental and radical, proposing big changes to how America worked. It just wanted to change America in what we would call a "conservative" direction. For example, it was conservatives who wanted to experiment with a novel idea like charter schools. In that case, it was liberals who wanted to leave the system the way it had always been, even when they agreed it was imperfect and could use reforms, arguing strongly for caution against untested and radical change. Liberals and conservatives both have fought to preserve with no changes those things they liked, while fighting to experiment with radical ideas that would push America in their preferred ideological direction. Conservative and liberal were ideological directions both groups sought to push towards.
@@FrankDiStefano yes, but like you said, religious conservatives have little in common with godless libertarians though they ended up together as they both opposed the social change that took place under the New Deal.
