A conservatism that is not against riots - unflinchingly, uncompromisingly, without reservation - has given up even trying to conserve anything.

If you read the history of conservatives in the Sixties - American & European, intellectual & blue-collar - an extraordinarily common story is how many were converted to the cause by riot & disorder & liberalism's inability to stand up to its ideological allies in the street.

Today's Right should not aspire to be the heirs of Sixties liberal academics who were too scared of their side's street cadres, & lost control of their institutions & lost public trust in their authority.

Conservatism without order is an oxymoron. Order is the foundation upon which the whole rest of conservatism is built.