This articulate, young conservative thinker just did a video for Prager U. He researched the Alt-Right movement and noted that they are not conservatives and are very different from conservatives. They are racist, preaching white supremacy and white identity politics. Conservatives do not support white supremacy or racist behavior.
Alt-Rightist are atheistic. Conservatives, by and large, are Christian. I am a Mavellonialist, but I know that God exists.
Knowles argues that the Alt-Rights has more in common with Leftists that conservatives. Both groups are racist, the Left being reverse-racist against whites. Both champion the collective over the individual. Both see people as of value only in terms of their racial or identity in terms of political categories.
Coservatives see the indivdidual as important, much more than the collective. Knowles asserts that entrepreneurship, personal responsibility and the pioneering desire are American, conservative attributes with the individual at the center of society, not groups.
I would suggest to Knowles and other mainline conservatives that they are only mildly conservative, the nonindividuating kind. Their start is good and worthy but they need to do much more and go much farther as individuating individualists to really earn the title of being individualists.
All and all and excellent video.
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