@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social
2026-04-29 13:26 UTC
We have seen this dynamic play out so many times since the formation of Modern Conservatism in the 1950s: Every new generation of rightwing intellectuals wants to believe they can harness and control the extremist, conspiratorial energies for their own purposes. It never works.
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@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 13:28
Now Rufo is concerned about the conspiratorial fever swamp getting out of (his) control. He believes he, as the intellectual vanguard of Trumpism, should be in charge of the radical “counter-revolution” and feels his status threatened by the more unruly extremist forces bubbling up.