[ConservingFreedom]

Interesting stuff! 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.'

[mojito]

The US is an interesting case, as our founding was a revolutionary act - which Burke supported, by the way. But then, this quintessential conservative was a Whig, not a Tory, who railed against the corruption and cronyism of the Crown.

[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.