I'd be angry too if some dumb shit was beating the dust out of their carpet over my freshly washed sheets

In the latest episode from Uncommon Knowledge, Sir Roger Scruton, a formally trained political philosopher, talks about his life and the events he’s witnessed that led him to conservatism. He first embraced conservatism after witnessing the leftist student protests in France in May 1968. During the ensuing riots in Paris, more than three hundred people were injured. Scruton walked away from this event with a change in worldview and a strong leaning toward conservatism. Visits to communist- controlled Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1979 cemented his preference for conservatism and his distaste for the fraud of communism and socialism, initiating a desire to do something about it. From thereon he dedicated himself to helping organize underground seminars for the young people oppressed behind the iron curtain.

Thank you, but a few month ago I read Roger Scruton's book "Conservatism. Ideas in profile". I agree with some of his points, but I disagree when he treats classic liberalism (especially market liberalism) as an element of Conservatism, in the way Reagan or Maggie Thatcher did (whom he admires)

@Thibaud70 No, he rather criticised Thatcher; he appreciated what she stood for as a conservative, but he argues that she never used the conservative framework to organize her overall political strategy. Instead she organised around market economics, which was not always effective in the social, cultural, and legal areas. That was his take.

Correct. True conservatives are a species on the brink of extinction. Sad.
MAGA-ism isn't conservative, neither are libertarians

@Thibaud70 In politics I am more like Bernie Sanders. I call myself a Progressive.

@DenoPenno As do I

@DenoPenno Is Sanders a progressive? I thought he was a socialist? Progressives care more about cultural issues (race, gender etc...) and identities, whereas socialists care about the economic foundations of society, about classes, who owns the means of production etc...

@Thibaud70 I don't believe some of these political categories are mutually exclusive. There's a certain amount of crossover.

@TheoryNumber3 Of course, there's always crossover and grey areas in culture and politics. But all political scientists I know who have written about the situation of the left agree that there are two types of it: 1.-the universalist left based on the ideas and values of the Enlightenment (who favor equality and color-blindness), and 2.- the postmodern identitarian left, whose proponents explicitly reject universalism and prefer policies based on identity groups and strategic essentialism; equity instead of equality). A very good book about these two varieties of the Left is Yascha Mounk's "The identity trap" (no, he's not a right-wing guy who hates the "woke" !