What is Neoreaction?

A fringe ideology creeps through the Republican Party

You’re not alone in thinking that something strange has happened to the Republican Party.

Over the past decade, the GOP has slowly shifted from the Party of Reagan into a strange alliance of conspiracy theorists, crypto pushers, tech moguls, and nativists. While there was always an inherent dissonance within the party’s electoral base of rural voters and the top one percent, the Republican Party still adhered to the same rulebook as the Democrats and could be ostensibly trusted to meet in the middle and work toward the common good of society. Donald Trump’s candidacy and subsequent electoral victories seem to have broken this contract. Today’s Republican party is increasingly untethered from a shared political goal (or shared reality, for that matter) with the left and center of American politics. The modern GOP is seemingly dedicated to warping basic foundations of American government and sacrificing personal liberties and the democratic process under the all-encompassing MAGA agenda.

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