The text provides an exhaustive analysis of the profound rupture within American conservatism, tracking the collapse of the prior “Fusionist” consensus and the ascendance of the radical “MAGA Mind.” This intellectual transformation is often described through the lens of a “Faustian bargain,” where influential conservative thinkers allegedly traded their scholarly independence for proximity to populist power, resulting in an ethos explicitly hostile to the premises of liberal democracy.
A central feature of the analysis is a comprehensive taxonomy detailing the four core factions of this “New Right” coalition, including the Post-Liberal Religious Traditionalists who seek state enforcement of morality, and the economically focused National Conservatives.
The report also examines the radically anti-democratic Techno-Monarchists and the power-worshipping Vitalists, noting their shared disdain for modernity and pluralism. However, the analysis is complicated by the “Revelation Thesis,” which suggests this intellectual movement is less an act of corruption and more a bottom-up reaction to the economic and cultural failures of the previous political establishment.
Ultimately, the text argues that this ideological shift represents a potential epistemic break from Enlightenment values, posing an existential risk to American civic institutions.
