{"id":28798,"date":"2019-01-18T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28798"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:38:15","slug":"how-conservative-media-became-a-safe-space-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28798","title":{"rendered":"How conservative media became a \u201csafe space\u201d - Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Illing, at Vox, interviewed<\/a> conservative pundit Charlie Sykes. Sykes has just started a new conservative web site that aims to publish \"independent, non-Trumpian conservative voices ... thoughtful, nontribal conservatism\". One bit rang a little bell with me.<\/p>\n

Sean Illing<\/strong>
\nHow can conservatism as a viable political philosophy survive this era? What does it have to become?<\/p>\n

Charlie Sykes<\/strong>
\nI honestly do not know the answer to that question. I think it\u2019s going to take a very, very long time for conservatism to wipe the stain of Trumpism off \u2014 and it may not be able to. In the long term, I think conservatism will always have a place as a moderator of radical change. Its real heart and soul is in reacting to destabilizing changes, as opposed to being a mainly positive ideology<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, indeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All through it, Sykes sounds very pessimistic about the future of rational, principles-based conservatism. And describes his new venture as a \"leap of faith\".<\/p>\n

Continuing...<\/p>\n

\nBut I suspect that the whole project of creating a conservative intellectual infrastructure might have run its course. I hope I\u2019m wrong about that, but I\u2019m just not sure. Maybe the one good thing about the current mess is that it\u2019s forcing conservatives to rethink their dogmas and really question what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

Whatever form of conservatism emerges out of this will not be the conservatism of Ronald Reagan or the libertarianism of Milton Friedman. It will look different and hopefully be more responsive to the actual needs of the real world, without the sort of ugly bigotry we\u2019re seeing now. It\u2019s also possible that the conservative movement and the GOP will just become a white-identity party, in which case I think we\u2019re doomed.<\/p>\n

Sean Illing<\/strong>
\nThat seems to be the most likely course, no?<\/p>\n

Charlie Sykes<\/strong>
\nI think so, but we\u2019re hoping at the Bulwark to stand in opposition to this and say, \u201cWe\u2019re not going along for this.\u201d We\u2019re hoping to salvage what we can, because the next couple of years are truly pivotal, and we need all the rationality we can get.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I was as pessimistic about something as Sykes seems to be, I don't know if I'd start a new business founded on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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