The Political Hat

     The Left and the post-conservative Right (AKA “Woke Right” or “common good conservative”) have been increasingly agreeing, not just on tactics or even analysis, but on the ultimate goal of tearing down the old and immanentizing their eschaton. The only disagreement isn’t about the need to immanentize an eschaton, or even the immanentization itself, but in which utopia they dream of. While the idea of politics being a “horseshoe” is an oversimplification, it is an accurate reflection of two purported extremes being actually more alike than either would admit. And those similarities are manifest:

“The Post-liberals, the anti-Constitutionalists, the subverters of liberty—Woke Left and Woke Right—don’t actually want to solve the problems our country has.

“They are both postcolonial activists—utilizing a neo-Marxist and Postmodern lens through which to analyze and critique power, political, & economic structures in society that they claim cause an unjust imbalance of power. They criticize the U.S. founding documents as Enlightenment-era, colonial relics that empower a cultural hegemony that is oppressive.

“They critique the US Constitution as facilitating the oppression of particular marginalized groups—for the Left the oppressors are white, male, ‘cis-heteronormative,’ beneficiaries of capitalism, billionaires, property-owners, American citizens (as opposed to illegal immigrants), etc. For the Right the oppressors are liberals and the beneficiaries of the ‘post-war consensus,’ with the marginalized as men, whites, Christians, heterosexuals, conservatives.

“For both ‘sides’ of the Woke, anti-Constitutional dialectic, it is a cynical exploitation of identity & a misplacement of blame for the purposes of ‘social justice’, with the aim of a revolution that will negate the cultural and political structures that facilitate individual liberty, national sovereignty, American principles such as the free-market, the Popular Sovereign, & Constitutional jurisprudence. They deny concepts such as Natural Law and the individual as being the primary moral & political concern of society. They invoke ideas of a greater social good via group identity (rather than the autonomous individual) & the necessity of an unbound executive—the State as god—to rule society.

“The anti-Constitutionalists from the Left are more overtly Marxist, while the anti-Constitutionalists from the Right blend their Marxism with a nationalist fervor passed off as patriotism. They both portray their efforts as a moral crusade—cultural revolution through dialectical political warfare. They use identity politics and social justice activism to achieve their means, & push grievances appealing to their audiences’ senses of right and wrong, agitating with anti-oppression propaganda. They propose the only solution as burning down the history & heritage of America In reality, they are not two sides—they are both Progressive activists.

“The Post-liberals, the anti-Constitutionalists, hate liberalism & see it as an impediment to be overcome. They misinform the public on what liberalism is in the hopes that they can force its abandonment, & seize power for themselves. They don’t want to actually create solutions to the real problems we are facing.”

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