Yeah, the eternal problem of "the right" is that its defined as nothing more than "not the left". I mean, even somewhere like here where were fairly right wing, what, 50% of the members are people who fell off the left wing train at some point?
Of all the major thought leaders, how many of the prominent ones are ex trochkites? I think moldbug might have been the one to mention this, that a lot of the right is composed of ex leftists, and since the most recent ex leftists are the ones with the closest connections to power and influence, often come to be the dominant players on the right.
For example, take a Dave Rubin, love it or hate it, but his relatively large amount of social capital which catipulted him to the relatively important place he occupies was built up from his time with the left. Jordan Peterson was old school left wing basically: he collects Soviet artwork, volunteered with I believe the Canadian equivalent of the Socialist party as a youth, and followed joung, which does not strike me as a particularly right wing activity.
Donald Trump in many ways is pretty close to a 90s democrat. His power an influence was built up by moving in the extremely liberal bubble of New York and TV.
The right lacks much of any ability to create power independent of liberal organizations: much of any power we do have is liberal defectors, which means the powerful in any sort of movent are going to tend to be the leftist power structure of 10 years ago.
Of all the major thought leaders, how many of the prominent ones are ex trochkites? I think moldbug might have been the one to mention this, that a lot of the right is composed of ex leftists, and since the most recent ex leftists are the ones with the closest connections to power and influence, often come to be the dominant players on the right.
For example, take a Dave Rubin, love it or hate it, but his relatively large amount of social capital which catipulted him to the relatively important place he occupies was built up from his time with the left. Jordan Peterson was old school left wing basically: he collects Soviet artwork, volunteered with I believe the Canadian equivalent of the Socialist party as a youth, and followed joung, which does not strike me as a particularly right wing activity.
Donald Trump in many ways is pretty close to a 90s democrat. His power an influence was built up by moving in the extremely liberal bubble of New York and TV.
The right lacks much of any ability to create power independent of liberal organizations: much of any power we do have is liberal defectors, which means the powerful in any sort of movent are going to tend to be the leftist power structure of 10 years ago.