No Country for Old Politics (How to Define the Right in a Left World)

traditionalRight ^ | 9/18/2013 | Paul Gottfried

[rmlew]

The right wing of the American Revolution saw itself as restoring traditional English rights of Americans. The left wing believed in universalism. I side with the Federalists like Washington over the Jacobin lovers.

[rmlew]

It’s not a blog. It’s an online magazine, with serious writers. It’s publishing platform is irrelevant.

[humblegunner]

It’s not a blog.

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[ConservingFreedom]

Doesn't sound like the essentialist Right has much to do with anything that could reasonably be called American conservatism: 'the US was founded in the eighteenth-century as a liberal republic and does not have what Burke called an “ancient constitution” similar to the one found in Europe. The social world that gave birth to classical conservatism was a lot more ancient or medieval than the society that American conservatives set out to defend.'

The right wing of the American Revolution saw itself as restoring traditional English rights of Americans.

I agree - but I think they understood themselves to be accomplishing that end by means of creating a form of government that was new, albeit leaning on English common law and informed by history. If "American conservatism" means anything, it means conserving that then-new creation.

[ConservingFreedom]

reap the benefits of their work by having FR traffic directed to the site where their work was originally posted

See post #9 - JR, the owner of this site, is explicitly against excerpting for the purpose of driving hits to the original site. His house, his rules.