As usual, liberal critiques of conservatives with an aim to actually conserve /something/ amount to little more than "point and sputter" commentary and circular, self-referential logic. "Democracy is good because democracy is good. Liberalism is good because liberalism is good." https://twitter.com/TheWeek/status/1288208613425778689

"It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the right in our time is evolving in the direction of rejecting the regular transfer of power between two legitimate political parties within a liberal frame."

So? Should the Right just bury its head in the sand and allow America to erode?

Liberalism and all of its tenets are not implicitly good. Liberalism itself engenders a narrative to which all of history is a continuing march of "progress", that civilization and society only advance in their temperament and political and cultural character and attitudes.

But any conservative with an understanding of history will tell you that this is certainly not the case. Was the French Revolution an improvement on the Ancien Regime? Was Weimar Germany an improvement on the Kaiserreich? The Soviet Union an improvement on Tsarist Russia?

Culture can crumble. Civilization can become decadent. Society can become debased. That criticisms and solutions toward these problems can come (and must come) from outside of the sphere of classical liberalism should be unsurprising to any Liberal seriously studying the Right.

As an addendum: only the Left is to blame for the re-awakening and rise of conservative intellectuals tentatively re-breaching the boundaries of Liberalism. It would be unnecessary if they didn't completely dismantle the cultural status quo that kept conservatives at the table.