John Derbyshire critiques Mainstream Conservatism.

Derbyshire comes to us from England and has become an American citizen.  He writes provocatively and interestingly and is not afraid to be an iconoclast.

The principal elements of American Conservatism have always been:

• mistrust of government power, especially the federal power;
• respect for traditional social arrangements centered on the biological family and the free association of citizens;
• property rights and the encouragement of free commerce;
• patriotism;
• demographic integrity and continuity;
• religion—or at least, in the case of the temperamentally irreligious, respect for religion; and
• individual liberty, with a willingness to accept a price in inequality.

Conservatism stands in opposition to an establishment that favors federal power, mocks traditional arrangements, infringes property rights when it can and cumbers commerce with taxes and regulations, disdains patriotism as uncouth and defers to international organizations, seeks demographic replacement, wars against popular religion, and always, always privileges equality over liberty.
In their promotion of those elements I just listed, Mainstream-Conservative publications do a good job overall; but they do better on some of my bullet points than on others, and are fatally weak on the fifth, on demographic integrity and continuity.
This weakness exists in part because Mainstream Conservatism is yoked to the Republican Party and its business sponsors. The dire effect of this relationship on demographic integrity was clearly seen following the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, when the Act’s punitive and protective (i.e. of American workers) clauses soon went unenforced as businesses dependent on illegal labor made angry phone calls to their GOP congressmen.
Because of their bonds with the GOP-business axis, Mainstream Conservatives are shy of demographic issues. Their shyness is compounded by the atmosphere of cultural Marxism we all live in, with its insistence on the perfect interchangeability of all human groups.

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