Boy, you must be a quick reader. You managed to go from never having heard of Russell Kirk to declaring him an elitist RINO in less than a week.
But you should have stuck with just acknowledging that you’d never heard of him since that would have spared you from making what has to be the stupidest estimation of Russell Kirk ever written. Kirk was as far from an apologist for corporate power and the Republican establishment as any major conservative thinker ever has been. He was concerned primarily with the moral order as the basis for western civilization.
Capitalism and the Moral Basis of Social Order by Russell Kirk
“A number of Americans, fancying that the world is governed mainly by economic doctrines and practices, are inclined to think that an era of international good feeling lies before us. I intend to sprinkle some drops of cold water on such hasty hopes. I have no faith in the notion that an abstract “democratic capitalism” is about to gain acceptance throughout the world.
We find fairly widespread in these United States a “capitalistic” version of Karl Marx’s dialectical materialism – more’s the pity. It is not a theoretical “democratic capitalism” that can preserve, unaided, order and justice and freedom. Materialism was an American vice when Alexis de Tocqueville travelled in the United States. That vice has not diminished in power. People who maintain that production and consumption are the ends of human existence presently will find themselves impoverished materially, as well as spiritually.....”
Reading comprehension I’d clearly not your strong suit - the established subject was your quote that Kirk minimized the Doctrine of Negative Rights (not that you made that statement yourself, never that, you’re just an acolyte randomly quoting your god Kirk, of course).
But then, you were just tasked with a single goal and you’re sticking to it - undermining the discussion of actual conservative issues in context, by getting conservatives to worship name over argument, accept lack of personal statements in exchange for name loyalty, and attacking anyone who calls you on your crap.
What a good little collectivist handler you are. Cost you your soul, but hey, look at all the little gold stars you got on your report card to replace it!
Carry on, worshipper. I’m no longer interested in wasting time with someone who won’t even own their own thoughts. Worms revolt me.