What’s Conservatism Anyway? Don’t Miss Our Roundtable.
In recent weeks, it’s become apparent that there is a rather concerning rift in the conservative movement. It’s difficult to put a finger on, but it starts to look like a gaping chasm if you start to spend time on X.
Candace Owens recently parted ways with the Daily Wire, one of the largest conservative media companies — and it wasn’t on good terms. While neither the Daily Wire nor Owens will say exactly what happened, it seems pretty obvious that they didn’t see eye to eye on certain fundamental issues. (READ MORE: I Read Ellen ‘Elliot’ Page’s Pageboy, and It Shows Just How Half-Baked Transgenderism Is)
The result? A raging debate on X over whether saying, “Christ is King,” is anti-Semitic — all made even more offensive to all parties involved given that the debate took place over the weekend of Palm Sunday. Owens and the “Christ is King” debate didn’t cause the rift; they simply highlighted it.
Modern conservatism is a mishmash of thoughts and ideas. It’s a huge tent that currently houses anyone who doesn’t think the government should be giving free drugs to homeless people, free housing to the illegal immigrants flooding over our border, or funding for innocent children to be mutilated by our woke healthcare industry. The problem is that while a lot of us agree on what society shouldn’t look like, we don’t always have the same vision for what it should look like. (READ MORE: New York Times: The Country Is Going to Hell, but Be Happy)
Young Americans have not just inherited a broken economy and culture from ancient elites who are older than their grandparents; they, especially the conservatives among them, have inherited an ill-defined response team that has been the underdog for so long that every time it gets power, it’s scared to use it.
On next week’s Spectacle podcast, Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay will be talking to some of The American Spectator’s young editors and writers about the direction of our country and what conservatism means to the next generation. It’ll be a lively conversation encompassing pop culture, economics, family, faith, and tradition that you won’t want to miss.
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