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In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans came to romanticize consumption, to see the illness as beautiful and ennobling. It’s tempting to imagine this romanticization as the opposite of stigmatization… But really, I see these as complementary strategies used to make the sick into an ‘other’ a group of people, fundamentally, distant and different from the rest of the social order.

Field describes three intellectual strains which shaped the transformation in conservative thought from 2016-2024 and the death of the fusionist consensus, the politics of Reagan and Buckley. The three strains are: the Claremonters/west coast straussians; postliberals; and national conservatives.

Setting up a narrative where K rebels bc Josiah Child underpays soldiers while also making Bombay vulnerable to Mahratta and Mughal predation. So far it’s a pleasant, quaint sort of history

“Since communism was insatiable, and since liberalism… was a ‘collective death-wish,” the Right believe that only it could save Western civilization. … ‘We of the Christian West,’ Bozell declared, ‘owe our identity to the central fact of history - the entry of God onto the human stage.’ It is our task to gild and defend a ‘Christian civilization.’” The roots of Christian nationalism run deep.

“Anticommunism… was for the most part easily assimilated into the conservative credo of the 1950s. Both libertarians and traditionalists discerned in the “God that failed” a case study for their deepest convictions. Communism was a threat to liberty AND tradition. If conservatism in 1955 was an amalgam, anti communism was a vital part of its cement.”