I think more than being nostalgic, a key feature of Conservatism is pessimism. Yesterday was always better and the walls are closing in today. Most Conservative commentators say something to effect of, "Listen to me! I won't solve any problem, but I'll make sure you notice the crap around us and you can get real upset!"
Then there's the Candace O-level of commentators, in which it's not only falling apart, but supernatural forces are at play.
Matt Walsh, though he makes good points, is an Olympian standard of a Conservative. I don't like these people in general. I don't see the point in politics if it just makes you upset.
Trying to claim hipsters as crypto-conservatives is completely insane. I hung around many of them in the 2000s and they were at the forefront of normalizing gayness, shaming fellow Whites for their privilege, staying single & childless into late adulthood, and simping for women & minorities.
The recession of 2008 actually did screw up the economic models of most countries in a way they really haven't properly recovered from and nostalgia for the pre-recession years actually makes sense, say, in the UK, where almost 20 years of trying to find a strategy that isn't unleashing the City and accepting that capitalism has booms and bust have been a busted flush.
What makes MUCH less sense is to be nostalgic for the oughts while also endorsing tariffs and nationalist politics. It's possible to argue that the liberal system of that period was always unsustainable and can't just be revived but believing exactly the opposite economic ideas will bring it back is stupendously dumb. Across the political spectrum, nostalgia for the 1990s and 2000s culturally overlaps with populist silliness. You don't have to accept the entire Marxist canon to believe economics have an enormous social upstream effect, so all these people come across as senseless
I think more than being nostalgic, a key feature of Conservatism is pessimism. Yesterday was always better and the walls are closing in today. Most Conservative commentators say something to effect of, "Listen to me! I won't solve any problem, but I'll make sure you notice the crap around us and you can get real upset!"
Then there's the Candace O-level of commentators, in which it's not only falling apart, but supernatural forces are at play.
Matt Walsh, though he makes good points, is an Olympian standard of a Conservative. I don't like these people in general. I don't see the point in politics if it just makes you upset.
Trying to claim hipsters as crypto-conservatives is completely insane. I hung around many of them in the 2000s and they were at the forefront of normalizing gayness, shaming fellow Whites for their privilege, staying single & childless into late adulthood, and simping for women & minorities.
Hipsters were so fucking gay. Twas really angry when they start appropriating cowboy boots/hunter clothing.
The recession of 2008 actually did screw up the economic models of most countries in a way they really haven't properly recovered from and nostalgia for the pre-recession years actually makes sense, say, in the UK, where almost 20 years of trying to find a strategy that isn't unleashing the City and accepting that capitalism has booms and bust have been a busted flush.
What makes MUCH less sense is to be nostalgic for the oughts while also endorsing tariffs and nationalist politics. It's possible to argue that the liberal system of that period was always unsustainable and can't just be revived but believing exactly the opposite economic ideas will bring it back is stupendously dumb. Across the political spectrum, nostalgia for the 1990s and 2000s culturally overlaps with populist silliness. You don't have to accept the entire Marxist canon to believe economics have an enormous social upstream effect, so all these people come across as senseless