“A key to the pathology of the radical right it offers both a powerful sense of aristocratic elevation and a deep sense of wounded victimization. While in many senses contradictory, this combined sense of being better and being wronged is exceptionally attractive.”

cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social it’s interesting to contrast the hostility to Christianity in these thinkers, as a fountainhead of universalism and therefore democracy, liberalism, socialism, versus the role of evangelicalism today.