A new conservative counterculture is growing. I call it the 'Quiet Right'
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A viable counterculture is being built. It's quietly taking shape. Many Americans are pessimistic about the state of our culture. Here's the solution to left-wing cultural dominance.
Though it might not make headlines, the Quiet Right represents a key social shift. Its adherents believe that human life is not cultivated primarily in the abstract—through ideology, media, and technology—but in the flesh. They sense the danger of captured institutions and are determined to build viable alternatives, substitutes, and replacements. Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Sign up for his newsletter here.
That old counterculture has become the dominant culture, having been absorbed into the bureaucracies of universities, schools, government, and now major corporations. The left-wing culture no longer carries a critique; it is the status quo.
This reversal has created an opening for a new counterculture that challenges the orthodoxy of the "successor ideology" and reveals the hollowness of left-wing institutional management. Though many conservatives have seen the opportunity, they have been pessimistic about its prospects.