About a month ago, Jonathan Chait published an important article in New York Magazine arguing that demographic changes in the United States will before too long spell doom to the political influence and hegemony of conservatives [i.e., reactionaries], and that conservatives [i.e., reactionaries], well aware of these changes, regard the 2012 elections as their last, best chance to reverse the course America is on. “Conservative America,” Chait writes, “will soon come to be dominated, in a semi-permanent fashion, by an ascendant Democratic coalition hostile to its outlook and interests.” The Republican [i.e., Reactionaries] Party, Chait explains, had over decades found itself increasingly confined to white voters, “especially those lacking a college degree and especially rural whites.” Meanwhile, Democrats have increased their standing among whites with graduate degrees, secular whites and racial minorities. . . .
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I think what counts as a “conservative” these days includes a range of interests, many of which seek to subvert government power in the interests of trans-national corporatism. How this radical press for social transformation came to be called conservative is an interesting question. Largely, it is due to a range of short-sited culture-war wadge issues and the ability to pretend that if we just protect the family from gays, the flag from liberals, and get the kids praying in the school again, we can all pretend that America still works the way some folks think it should.