David Brooks on the New Right

Excellent David Brooks column on how the right has adopted the theories and tools of the left:

As so many have noted, MAGA is identity politics for white people. It turns out that identity politics is more effective when your group is in the majority.

…Last year, a writer named James Lindsay cribbed language from “The Communist Manifesto,” changed its valences so that they were right wing and submitted it to a conservative publication called The American Reformer. The editors, unaware of the provenance, were happy to print it. When the hoax was revealed, they were still happy! The right is now eager to embrace the ideas that led to tyranny, the gulag and Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Interestingly, the right didn’t take the leftist ideas that were intended to build something; they took just the ideas intended to destroy.

Read the whole thing.