A surprising source for a cutting summation of conservatism's crude ideology.
the case before—Francis Wilhoit died in 2010; Frank Wilhoit posted his remark in 2018—but the confusion lingers, for obvious reasons.This week, I reached out to Wilhoit the younger to discuss the long half-life of his observation. He explained what he thinks of conservatism, which piece of his music he likes most, and why he can’t stand this case of mistaken identity.Henry Grabar: You wrote this in March 2018, which was a pretty banal month by Trump administration standards.
I do tend to repeat myself in proportion as the audience is listening. The basic idea with the parallel construction, which of course is a syntactic cliche, had occurred to me long before. I think that it is a reasonably commonplace observation and I certainly claim no originality for it.I do think that what I said back then now appears rather abstract, perhaps even inapplicably abstract because we see a process of devolution all around us which is accelerating now day by day.
Say more about that. When you talk about conservatism, are you thinking about the Republican Party? That’s the way I’ve seen the quote interpreted.Well, when you take an idea like that, which is expressed fairly abstractly, and you look about for applications of it to real-world circumstances, then that is what you find. The Republican Party flatters itself as a conservative party it, and conservatism has long been surrounded by an enormous shimmering halo of pseudo-philosophy.
But as I said a moment ago, we are at this point devolving so rapidly that the appetite and the patience for that kind of pseudo-philosophy, for that kind of propaganda, is waning every day. What remains of the “conservative” strands in the public discourse is a primal scream. Just the other day, for example, people were shaking their head at Rep.
I guess this must have been around the time you became aware that there is a deceased political scientist who shares your name and could quite plausibly have been the author of such a statement.Yes. And I was perfectly horrified by that because I had absolutely no right to create that kind of confusion, to pose that kind of insoluble problem for the custodians of his legacy. They will be playing whack-a-mole with that misattribution for all future time.
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