Christmas Conservative

*Originally written on Dec. 20, 2020

I was recently up at 3am, sunken into the worn-fibers of my basement sofa, writing an excruciatingly boring assignment regarding the nascent rise of paleo-conservatism in the western world. Mulling over the core concepts, I struggled to come up with the broader implications of the essay’s findings. What was there to realize that had not already been discovered? Paleo-conservatism posits that the proper response to perceived cultural or national degradation is an indignant propagation of that same culture or national identity. It is evident that such an…