So welcome to the podcast. This is episode 366. My name is Douglas Wilson. And I appreciate the fact that you've decided to give up 15 minutes of your time.

One of the things that has happened in recent years on the right has been a generational divide, a generational divide. And I noticed it a few years ago

when I started getting called names. And the names were names like Boomer Con. So it's the conservatives who came of age in the 70s and 80s, sort of the Reagan era, Reagan conservatives began to be treated as sort of kennel-fed conservatives or domesticated conservatives, conservatives who were the

controlled opposition because Reagan didn't successfully reverse course, which is actually true.

He didn't successfully reverse course.

But I began noticing, basically noticing the taunts, and political

disagreements between various factions of conservatives has been nothing new. For example,

there was the, under the aegis of National Review, there was the fusionist approach where you had the free market

conservatives, the free trade, let's do that, you had the Warhawk conservatives and you had the

social conservatives, opposition to pornography and abortion and that sort of thing. And so there was a, this fusionist approach

put together this uneasy alliance between the anti-communists, Warhawks, between the economic

conservatives, we need, we need free trade, and the social conservatives. And that was basically the Reagan

alliance. And of course, debates would break out and people would be suspicious of one another.

The divisions within the conservative movement are nothing new. There was always an uneasy element to that alliance. But in recent years,

it's quite striking that the divisions or the tensions within the conservative movement

have become generational. They've become generational. So that basically if you look at voices on the hard right or the dissident right,

that would be the responsible guys over there.

And then what I'm calling the dank right, people are giving way to anti-Semitism or other forms of toxic malevolence.

The dank right and the alt-right or the dissident right, if you say, hey, steady, let's go

more slowly or do anything, say anything like that, you don't find your position critiqued,

which should be fair game in any political debate. But what you find is what C.S. Lewis called

Bolverism, where the error of your proposal is not refuted or explained and, you know, shown to be false,

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