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Let’s check in and see how conservative intellectuals are handling the revolution

On June 4, 2020

At 3:26 pm

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Just FYI, I will only ever "take a knee" to the Blessed Sacrament, before the sovereign pontiff and greater prelates.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 4, 2020

I want to go back to this Hazony tweet, which I think is spot-on. Beginning in 2015-16, liberal elites began to suffer a series of worldwide ballot-box setbacks. This was because liberal order wasn't working (well) for anyone other than capital and the PMCs who service capital. https://t.co/8CqOIBoOPk— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 4, 2020

Rather than readjust the program, parties and figures of the center left and center right doubled down on a vision that had wrought moral decay, suicides, depression, opioids for working-class people (of all races). And they did everything they could to undo ballot-box outcomes.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 4, 2020

But they failed. Time and again, they failed. The "collusion" hoax failed to bring down Trump. So did the moronic Ukraine call impeach push. Brexit went through. In Hungary and Poland, voters returned conservative nationalist parties to power with bigger majorities. Etc. etc.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 4, 2020

If we go into a hot civil-war scenario in the United States and elsewhere, a prospect I consider plausible, the blame will lie with them for refusing to concede electoral loss, refusing to accommodate rising democratic forces.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 4, 2020

Not well, it seems.

Americans are going to flee the cities like we did in the post-68 era. 30 years of great progress for cities undone in one spring. Everyone gonna be moving to suburbs/exurbs & buying guns.— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) June 2, 2020

This is false. People are moving away from the suburbs and back to the city. This is a trend that’s continued post the first wave of #BLM protests.

People left behind in cities will be heavy consumers of government services. High earners will flee.— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) June 2, 2020

It’s killing them that a plurality of people support the protests.

The things that successful people like about cities will follow out to the suburbs. High-end restaurants for instance. Culture. People will struggle to think of a reason ever to go into downtown again.— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) June 2, 2020

These people all remind me of some deranged rando on twitter screaming

“Stick to food! I’ll never fuck you now, PADME LAKSHMI!”