Why "The Right" is Wrong

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Washington — American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Matthew Continetti’s resume is a reason why his book fails to achieve its stated objectives, objectives such as, “How did Donald Trump Win?” and, “What is the Future of the GOP?”

Continetti served as associate editor at (the awful & failed) Weekly Standard, and in addition to working at AEI, he’s also a contributing editor at National Review. Right off the bat, that is three strikes.

Here’s why: There was a divide among conservatives around 1945—the date F.A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom was published—calling for Individual Liberty over de-humanizing State-Run Socialism from whence Hayek came.

On one side was Roman Catholic William F. Buckley, founder of National Review. Buckley’s fight was for America and for his faith—as Catholicism was being undermined by President John F. Kennedy. It’s a fight that many conservative Roman Catholics pick today with President Joe Biden—for example, should a faithful priest give Biden, an advocate of abortion, communion?

The other side, the Paleo-Conservative, or the New Right side, had no real leader until Barry Goldwater in the late ‘60’s. Their view of American government was mostly seen through the lens of the US Constitution. This group pursued Individual Liberty, Economic Freedom and Limited Government, and were decidedly not Roman Catholic, indeed many were naturally suspicious of Roman Catholicism.  It was this suspicion