Reflections on a Right-Wing Protest

In Memphis, on the fourteenth and fifteenth of this month, a conservative revolt burst into flame. What you saw in the National States’ Rights Conference depended on where you looked. If you looked at the heart of the blaze, you saw a single fire of common purpose. If you looked at its edges, you saw only divergent flames, each jetting upward apart from its fellows, flickering a moment, and vanishing in the night.

The conference was composed of factions which can be sorted out into four distinct groups. They were united by their indignation at the major political parties which have, for all practical purposes, combined into a monopoly that offers to the American people only a frivolous choice between Socialism with a broad grin and Socialism with a pseudo-intellectual stare.

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In Memphis, on the fourteenth and fifteenth of this month, a conservative revolt burst into flame. What you saw in the National States’ Rights Conference depended on where you looked. If you looked at the heart of the blaze, you saw a single fire of common purpose. If you looked at its edges, you saw only divergent flames, each jetting upward apart from its fellows, flickering a moment, and vanishing in the night.

The conference was composed of factions which can be sorted out into four distinct groups. They were united by their indignation at the major political parties which have, for all practical purposes, combined into a monopoly that offers to the American people only a frivolous choice between Socialism with a broad grin and Socialism with a pseudo-intellectual stare.