Yes, this is a real thing. The “right wing” right now covers both free market ideas, and the nationalist mercantalism thing that’s actually succeeding in the polls. There’s not much shared between them.
I personally think if you are rich and politically active, you are just going for power. You certainly don’t care if your position is true or false as long as it preserves your wealth and power or increase your wealth and power.
You’d have to be fucking stupid to be right wing and generally academically inclined individuals are not stupid, so…
There’s probably a small bunch that claim to be right wing because they have a lot of money and greed eclipses intelligence.
Yes, this is a real thing. The “right wing” right now covers both free market ideas, and the nationalist mercantalism thing that’s actually succeeding in the polls. There’s not much shared between them.
I personally think if you are rich and politically active, you are just going for power. You certainly don’t care if your position is true or false as long as it preserves your wealth and power or increase your wealth and power.