/lit/ - Literature

Non-meme answer.

Intellectual conservatism is dead. The right killed it.

Look at America with the artificial divide between Democrats and Republicans. Now we know there's little difference between both parties outside what series of donors they're appealing to however they still need votes to win over the masses - so they peddle shit about idpol. The Democrats scour the left, look for content that won't upset the economic status-quo, filter the ideology of any radical links and repackage in the form of progressive values perfectly in line with oligarchical America. This requires a degree of finesse and intellectual justification.

In contrast the Right has to do the opposite. The Right certainly could make intellectual arguments to justify their case - but that's not what their base wants, or at least this is not the base they have cultivated. The ideas of the right do not come from books or the university but the base fears and insecurities of the masses.