Conservatism, as we have known it since the 1950s, is collapsing. George Hawley, a political scientist at the University of Alabama, has written a well-informed, readable account of this collapse, together with an introduction to the now-marginalized movements that could replace conservatism. Although Prof. Hawley predicts that Cato Institute-style libertarianism has the best chance of profiting from the conservative train wreck, he also includes a balanced account of the prospects for what he calls “the radical right:” race realists, white advocates, and racial nationalists. Although he carefully distances himself from “racists,” Prof. Hawley has tried to understand the movement and to assess its prospects as an alternative to moribund conservatism. ...
Sounds like a worthy book from an even more worthy review. My only major criticism is that I worry about the sanity of any scholar who assumes that the US crime rate will continue to decline as America becomes an ever more teeming fractured third-world hellhole.
http://www.amren.com/features/2016/05/what-will-replace-conservatism/
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