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How the 'anti-American right' hijacked the GOP: conservative
The Right Did Not Lose Its Mind. It Found Its Appetite.The Source Is the ClueDavid French’s column, as described here, treats the Republican Party’s MAGA turn as an abandonment of “classical liberalism.” He points to Elon Musk, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and Peter Thiel as evidence that the right is openly hostile to democratic rule and the constitutional language it used to borrow for cover.That is the useful part of the piece. The weakness is in the framing. This is not some tragic misunderstanding inside conservatism. It is the visible alignment of money, state power, and…
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