Traditional ‘freedom’ conservatives are battling ‘national’ conservatives for the right to define the movement in the U.S. But here in Canada, our dividing lines are different
on The Hub, the lively conservative website edited by Stephen Harper’s former policy adviser, Sean Speer.
FreeCons take an optimistic view of American prospects, and of the open society generally; as such they incline to a more welcoming approach to immigration and a more muscular foreign and defence policy. NatCons, by contrast, seek to pull up the drawbridge against a threatening world, isolating America as much as possible from outside influences and foreign entanglements – for example,This dichotomy, it should be said, puts rather a more dignified face on things than is probably warranted.
What, in other words, could these two movements possibly have to do with each other? It is one thing to duke it out for control of a political party: a vessel, that is, for the pursuit of power, which acquires whatever principles are needed to that end. The Democratic Party began the last century as the party of segregation and white supremacy; it ended it as the party of civil rights and reparations.
But national conservatism marks a fundamental break with freedom conservatism – indeed, in its wilder offshoots, of Christian nationalism and “white nationalism,” with the whole Enlightenment tradition that is the common heritage of liberals and conservatives alike. There can be no accommodation between the two claimants to the conservative mantle. Either one prevails, or the other does.
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