Too much reliance on Tocqueville for a description and explanation of republican virtues in early America in this essay? But typical of a certain kind of American conservative.
Or tldr?
In the end, this is all integralism really is. It is an internet aesthetic of mostly young men alienated from the public life and consumed with the libido dominandi. In the absence of those institutions that had once made America a place of deep faith and committed to liberty, these young men have had recourse to the Internet and attach themselves to the sublime historical experience of sacramental kingship, Iberian Falangism, or straight-up fascism supported by the general ideas purveyed by Vermeule and the like. The only alternative is for the Church to train and appoint new bishops committed to participating in public life with their congregations and raising them up in the republican virtue that so defined American Catholicism.The author is wrong to identify some of friendship or social virtue as "republican virtue." Republican virtue will include friendship and the social virtues, but it is more than those two, and his example of parish life doesn't even come close to giving a full illustration of what republican virtue involves and requires. He is correct to criticze the Latin integralists but he is ignorant of his own precarious situation vis-a-vis the state.
Why do these intellectuals allow themselves to take the mask off and be scrutinized on social media... Most people should stay off social media platforms like Twitter.
Who, indeed, is dabbling in sepia-toned nostalgia? https://t.co/36fEGQqzgl— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 22, 2020
In which a professor takes some ‘member berries and tells us about it. pic.twitter.com/R1depvbmjv— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 22, 2020
I wrote a piece on integralism today. I argue that, historically, integralists have made common cause with some historically unsavory characters. That most criticism has been with my penchant for typos, I feel relieved that I got the rest generally right. https://t.co/Cx1KHuJ37f— James Patterson (@McGillPatterson) April 22, 2020
See the rest of the thread and the exchange between the two.
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