There is nothing "conservative" or "right-wing" about Patel, Gabbard or RFK Jr. They rather represent a new form of obscurantist radicalism: anti-evidence, anti-science, and opposed to the rule of law
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The New Rasputins
There was never anything conservative in any of so-called neoconservatives since George Bush II. Radical revolutionary ideas, world-wide intervention, the largest government budgets in history … neither of these things were ever #conservative.
@mcepl a lot of people miss that neoconservative was actually describing liberals.
The term was coined to describe folks on the moderate left who took on some conservative priorities, but even if the word is a little bit confusing, it was a new type of liberal, not conservative.
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