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@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

Do you remember the days when US conservatives used to lament in high flown language the threat to popular sovereignty posed by an "activist judiciary legislating from the bench"?

Now they seem happy that important decisions for people all over the USA are handed down by a lone bigot in Amarillo, TX.

Schumer, McConnell introduce judge shopping bills | The Texas Tribune

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/11/judge-shopping-texas-amarillo-kasmaryk-senate/

#USPolitics #USLaw #USConservatism #JudgeShopping #Texas #MatthewKasmaryk

Do you remember the days when US conservatives used to lament in high flown language the threat to popular sovereignty posed by an "activist judiciary legislating from the bench"?

Now they seem happy that important decisions for people all over the USA are handed down by a lone bigot in Amarillo, TX.

Schumer, McConnell introduce judge shopping bills | The Texas Tribune

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/11/judge-shopping-texas-amarillo-kasmaryk-senate/

#USPolitics #USLaw #USConservatism #JudgeShopping #Texas #MatthewKasmaryk

Read this piece by a US conservative for a reminder that, amongst other ugly passions, racial hatred continues to seethe away on the white christian right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html

#USPolitics #USCulture #PresbyterianChurchOfAmerica #DavidFrench #USConservatism #RightWingExtremists #Racism #ChristianNationalism #ChristianRight

Read this piece by a US conservative for a reminder that, amongst other ugly passions, racial hatred continues to seethe away on the white christian right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html

#USPolitics #USCulture #PresbyterianChurchOfAmerica #DavidFrench #USConservatism #RightWingExtremists #Racism #ChristianNationalism #ChristianRight

Read this piece by a US conservative for a reminder that, amongst other ugly passions, racial hatred continues to seethe away on the white christian right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html

#USPolitics #USCulture #PresbyterianChurchOfAmerica #DavidFrench #USConservatism #RightWingExtremists #Racism #ChristianNationalism #ChristianRight