"With so much of its identity wrapped up in rejecting “the Left,” Modern Conservatism always had a reactionary quality. As the commitment to ultimate values was never balanced by an equally strong commitment to limiting principles that could have moderated political action, where was the restraint against further escalation and radicalization supposed to come from?"

@tzimmer_history on the radical core of Modern Conservatives

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-modern-conservative-tradition