Just as there is Fake News, so too is there such a thing as “Fake Conservatism,” or the “Fake Right.” And just as Fake News is a vast money-making industry, Fake Conservatism is as well. This is why it is best, I submit, to refer to this counterfeit species of conservatism as Big Conservatism, or “the Big Con.”
One especially salient feature shared by the agents of the Big Con, these fake conservatives, is an insatiable desire to virtue-signal to the left. However, even while doing so, they convince their constituents that their anti-right, pro-left perspectives are in fact “conservative.”
National Review’s Rich Lowry provides us with the proverbial textbook illustration of this showmanship.
Political violence has returned to the streets of America. Without exception, its antagonists have been leftists, self-described members of “the Resistance.”
Yet Rich Lowry, writing in Politico, decries not Antifa or Black Lives Matter, but “the poisonous allure of right-wing violence.”
Specifically, Lowry singles out Gavin McInnes, founder of “the Proud Boys.”
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On the evening of Friday, October 12, street confrontations occurred in New York City between Gavin McInnes’ Proud Boys and several Antifa “protestors” after McInness gave a talk at the New York Metropolitan Republican Club.
Lowry’s condemnation of McInnes is unequivocal. McInnes’ “alt-right affiliation” is established, Lowry insists, by the “rancid” nature of some of the publications for which McInnes has written. The founder of the Proud Boys is a “fringe-y right-wing” persona with a “cracked vision” who, in contrast to such other “fringe figures” as…