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THE FOUNDING CONSERVATIVES: HOW A GROUP OF UNSUNG HEROES SAVED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By David Lefer
Sentinel, $29.95, 406 pages
By David Lefer
Sentinel, $29.95, 406 pages
In this splendid narrative history centered largely in the years between the Declaration of Independence and the ratification of our Constitution, David Lefer, historian and professor at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, points out that it was a chaotic period, in many ways not dissimilar to our own, “a time of war without end; of real estate crashes, rampant speculation, and mounting public debt; of popular outrage at bankers and merchants … of bitter disputes over taxation; and of such animosity between left and right that it frequently left Congress paralyzed for months on end.”
Given the turbulence and the recognizable similarities, writes Mr. Lefer, “it’s unsurprising that the Founders reacted more like us than their impassive marble likenesses would lead us to believe.” This will no doubt upset many of what Mr. Lefer calls “consensus historians.” But that, in part, may be one of his objectives.
To bring the period and its complexities to life, Mr. Lefer takes us behind those “impassive marble likenesses” and focuses largely on the men, neglected by history, he thinks are the “unsung heroes” of our Revolution.
Among them, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, drafter of the Articles of Confederation . . .
As for theme, writes Mr. Lefer, “This book makes three main arguments. First is that the founding conservatives saved the American Revolution . Second, the founding conservatives brought modern capitalism to America.” And third, “we should no longer look to Britain for the origins of American conservatism. Modern conservatism was born at the moment of independence [and] America’s conservative heritage reflects our nation’s unique history and culture.” . . .
The major knock against democracies is that they degenerate into mob rule, with ever larger numbers of people voting themselves ever greater public benefits. And yet, lucky us, we have been experiencing the worst of both worlds.
On the one hand, we have indeed been degenerating into mob rule, while on the other, our hostile ruling elites, many of them 'conservative,' often have been much more radical than the European American majority, who oftentimes demonstrates a common sense conservationism on things like open borders, massive legal immigration, affirmative action/discrimination against whites, law enforcement, etc, but who are then completely and contemptuously ignored by their smirking elected 'leaders.'
A big part of this is that while capitalism in some form is needed for economic freedom, it can also have radical mob-rule tendencies, which we have seen with many mainstream fast-buck cheap-labor open-borders globalist 'conservatives' and neoconservatives.
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Enjoys purging its writers who dare to be conservative.
Yes, by all means, gun rights, but isn't this a deliberate firing-up-the-Right distraction? Once the US and other Western nations are overwhelmingly made up of third-world populations, how long will guns protect whites against hostile (eventually including local) governments, confiscatory taxation, home invasion robberies, rapes and murders (even with a gun, you only have to slip up once, allow one opening and you and your family are gone) and being burned out by fire. White farmers in Africa have found that owning a gun doesn't help all that much once they are standing on top of a pile of ashes.
If the giants of modern conservationism, like William F. Buckley and his Nation Review, cannot see the connection between conservatism and saving Western civilization, it makes conservatism more deceptively dangerous than liberalism or Multicultural Marxism that at least openly tries to dilute and destabilize the West at every turn, and is overwhelmingly winning--for now.
Recall that Soviet Communism was once considered in the vanguard of history. How could anything so well intentioned fail? Of course this is the problem with any government utopia: eventual failure is built-in.
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