Jeff, maybe I could start with just a simple question because people are going to be listening to this podcast on various formats with varying degrees of background in understanding this, but when we use an expression like the woke right or the new right, what are we talking about? What do we mean by the new right or what some people have dubbed the woke right? What is this? Tell us a bit about this as a movement, if you can.

Sure.

So a couple of streams go into those concepts.

One, it tends to be populist, meaning that there is an extant distrust for what exists.

That's what's been inherited and those sorts of things.

And this factors into the philosophy of post-liberalism.

Liberalism in the sense of classical liberalism, individuality, individual freedom, limited and defined governmental restraints.

So are there any particular individuals or books or leaders that are, you know, summarizing, in a sense, the agenda that especially our listeners might think, you know, I need to do some work on that and have a look at where this is coming from?

Without to right now dealing with the errors of their reaction, what are the, the, the real problems that they are reacting to, so that we start, starting from a point of trying to understand the reaction we're seeing in our culture right now?

now?Yes.

So again, I don't think this is endemic to liberalism, but it's certainly liberalism provides the opportunity for expressive individualism, which led to radical autonomy, radical self-government expressed in radical feminism, which leads to, um, egalitarianism, which leads to abortion on demand, which leads to sexual profligacy, which leads to, um, the trans movement, all these kinds of issues.

So they are seeing eruptions culturally that are problematic.

You combine that with the left's, uh, identity politics, the collectivist cultural Marxism, and so you are seeing d- um, a decline or a rejection of meritocracy, that you're seeing flat discrimination against better qualified people in terms of jobs, promotions and all the rest.

And so they're saying, "That's not right." And so, um, that is a legitimate concern.

And so when you see a, a blue collar, um, worker who's worked hard being, uh, uh... his job is being outsourced, uh, for a variety of reasons, and it turns out the outsourcing are people that don't look like him, the inference is drawn that it's because of those kinds of issues.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so what, what are they, without to, right now dealing with the errors of their reaction, what are the, the, the real problems that they are reacting to so that we start, starting from a point of trying to understand the reaction we're seeing in our culture right now?

now?Yes.

So again, I don't think this is endemic to liberalism, but it's certainly liberalism provides the opportunity for expressive individualism, which led to radical autonomy, radical self-government expressed in radical feminism, which leads to, um, egalitarianism, which leads to abortion on demand, which leads to sexual profligacy, which leads to, um, the trans movement, all these kinds of issues.

So they are seeing eruptions culturally that are problematic.

You combine that with the left's, uh, identity politics, the collectivist cultural Marxism, and so you are seeing d- um, a decline or a rejection of meritocracy, that you're seeing flat discrimination against better qualified people in terms of jobs, promotions and all the rest.

And so they're saying, "That's not right." And so, um, that is a legitimate concern.

And so when you see a, a blue collar, um, worker who's worked hard being, uh, uh, his job is being outsourced, uh, for a variety of reasons, and it turns out the outsourcing are people that don't look like him, the inference is drawn that it's because of those kinds of issues.

Mm-hmm.

Without to, right now dealing with the errors of their reaction, what are the, the, the real problems that they are reacting to so that we start, starting from a point of trying to understand the reaction we're seeing in our culture right now?

now?Yes.

So again, I don't think this is endemic to liberalism, but it's certainly liberalism provides the opportunity for expressive individualism, which led to radical autonomy, radical self-government expressed in radical feminism, which leads to, um, egalitarianism, which leads to abortion on demand, which leads to sexual profligacy, which leads to, um, the trans movement, all these kinds of issues.

So they are seeing eruptions culturally that are problematic.

You combine that with the left's, uh, identity politics, the collectivist cultural Marxism, and so you are seeing d- um, a decline or a rejection of meritocracy, that you're seeing flat discrimination against better qualified people in terms of jobs, promotions and all the rest.

And so they're saying, "That's not right." And so, um, that is a legitimate concern.

And so when you see a, a blue collar, um, worker who's worked hard being, uh, uh... his job is being outsourced, uh, for a variety of reasons, and it turns out the outsourcing are people that don't look like him, the inference is drawn that it's because of those kinds of issues.

Mm-hmm.