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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24692 Post contents: To Mr Richert: To be more specific, "looking backward" tends to show up at the level of rhetoric, whereas "looking forward" tends to appear at the level of policy. The Reagan era had this paradox down to a science. Reagan could praise the economics of the Coolidge era and the military supremacy of the Eisenhower era while pursuing policies which acknowledged that these two eras were bygone ones. I am not necessarily defending the tension between nostalgia and policy, but some of the most successful rightist movements have embodied the tension. The reality is that most voting blocs who are supposedly "conservative" have little idea of how much counter-revolutionary action it would require to restore a lost age dating back even 30-50 years, much less centuries. Sent at: 2008 08 08