During the Abbeville Institute’s week-long summer school a few weeks ago, a student asked the Institute’s founder and director, Professor Don Livingston of Emory University, a question about the composition of “The Left” and “The Right” in American politics today. He wanted Professor Livingston’s opinion of the prospects for the success of “The Right” to get the country to move in a more conservative direction. Professor Livingston correctly pointed out that the premise of the question was all wrong.
The premise, of course, was that America’s highly centralized, monopolistic, imperialistic, federal government — the Lincolnite state — is desirable if not inevitable. Consequently, the route to greater freedom and prosperity is for “The Right” to control the federal Leviathan and use the levers of federal power to achieve its political ends.
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