What’s So New About the ‘New Right’?

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At the heart of the New Right is a belief that most of what ails America can be blamed on a liberal elite that has burrowed into the federal government, the news media, Hollywood, big business and higher education — what Vance calls “the regime,” and Curtis Yarvin, one of his New Right influences, calls “the Cathedral.”

What’s So New About the ‘New Right’?

JD Vance and his allies represent a mind-set that dates back to the McCarthy era and the dawn of the Cold War.

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“The right-wing populism that’s gotten such a strong foothold in Trump’s Republican Party has a long lineage,” said David Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers University. “In the early 20th century, there was a similar rural backlash against the changes in society that were making America more centralized, urban, cosmopolitan and interconnected with the world.”