The intellectual right’s war on America’s institutions - Vox

…Views like these — that repudiate America's core institutions and ideals, up to and often including its democracy — are becoming more and more mainstream on the right. They can be found at right-wing intellectual gatherings, like the National Conservatism conference. They can be found from one of the right's leading moneymen, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who once argued that "I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible." They even have champions on Capitol Hill, like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a critic of "woke capitalism" who has argued that the idea that a person should be free to "define your own values" is a kind of "heresy."…

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/19/22787269/conservatives-america-chris-rufo-patrick-deneen