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When a chemical engineer is tasked with designing a mixing system for insoluble liquids, he has to calculate the amount of energy needed to turn the liquids into an emulsion.\u00a0 So, these liquids that completely repel each other like water and oil can be suspended in each other and thereby come in intimate contact with each other.\u00a0 And in that state they can be smoothly reacted with each other by some catalyst or chemical.<\/p>\n

Something similar has occurred between the different camps on the Right.\u00a0 Michael Anton describes himself as a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a former national security official in the Trump Administration.\u00a0 He became well-known for writing the \u201cFlight 93 Election\u201d back before the 2016 presidential election when he advocated for Donald Trump as our last chance to stop the country from sliding into leftist tyranny.<\/p>\n

He is as far philosophically as anyone on the real Right can be from the Z-Man when it comes to beliefs about the nature of government.\u00a0 And yet these two men have now made contact.\u00a0 Specifically, Anton has written a (very) long post<\/a> at American Greatness defending the concept of natural rights against an assertion that the Z-Man made<\/a> that natural rights do not exist.\u00a0 And in fact, the Z-Man\u2019s post was a reaction to an Anton post that was itself a reaction to an essay by yet another personality on the Right the paleoconservative Paul Gottfried.\u00a0 Enough agitation is occurring in our environment to bring these various species in contact with each other and the interaction is yielding change and reaction.<\/p>\n

Now suffice it to say that what passes for debate here is more like low intensity warfare (especially in the comments sections).\u00a0 But I think the fact that, at least, they are beginning to acknowledge each other\u2019s existence is the beginning of communication.\u00a0 And this communication is important.\u00a0 Not so much for the writers but for the readers.\u00a0 Currently the ideas of the various groups on the Right are pretty thoroughly siloed.\u00a0 Having the readers get a taste of the other opinions around is all for the good.\u00a0 These ideas need to be banged around against each other a good deal for some clarity to emerge.\u00a0 People need to compare the words to the world around them and decide which model is right or mostly right.\u00a0 Because chances are no one model is completely correct.\u00a0 There could be valuable insights from more than one camp.\u00a0 And it\u2019s possible that minds could be changed on certain points if a wider consensus is formed.<\/p>\n

So, this is just talk.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a beginning.\u00a0 One thing that\u2019s been totally lacking on the right is any kind of open discussion of the taboo subjects.\u00a0 We\u2019ve allowed the Left to control the allowable agenda for discussion on the Right for generations.\u00a0 What we\u2019re seeing is the beginning of the breakdown of that control.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t reached the point where the establishment Right will acknowledge the relevance of the dissident opinions but the middle is starting to address them.\u00a0 Once the majority of the non-Left has shifted to the edge of the dissident territory the establishment will be forced kicking and screaming to the right.\u00a0 What happens after that is unknown.<\/p>\n

It may turn out that the Left will outright win and all this will be moot.\u00a0 But if the Right manages to push the country in our direction, then the establishment Right will convince themselves that they were always in the vanguard of this great movement and deserve all the praise and benefits.\u00a0 And eventually the Right will overstep itself and some reaction will occur.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s hardly anything for us to worry about.\u00a0 It will take a generation just to stop the leftward swing of the cultural pendulum, never mind getting it back to the center.\u00a0 But it is encouraging to see the center acknowledge the dissident position and even begin to give grudging approval to some of their ideas.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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