Lawrence Auster

From View From The Right

We've entered into a new situation, in which our relationship with our government and society and our fellow Americans, how we feel about them, and even what our own identity is as Americans, has become, to an undetermined extent, undetermined. How that will sort out we don't know yet, and may not know for a long time.

For years I've wrestled with the question, how does a conservative relate to a social order that has already been radicalized? How does an American feel about his country--and about himself as an American--when it has been largely changed into a different country? My answer has been stated in part in my Traditionalist's Credo:

I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. I will vote in its elections and participate in its political debates. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order.