/lit/ - Literature

Have Conservatives always been pessimistic? I get the vibes that conservatives across the west are going full doomer.

I've recently been reading into contemporary conservatism, and three books in particular stand out to me, 'The Strange Death of Europe' by Douglas Murray, 'The Death of the West' by Pat Buchanan and 'America alone' by Mark Steyn stand out as DOOMER /lit/ in particular. Basically all three say the chances are slim of reversal, and Douglas Murray, in particular, thinks it's almost inevitable that liberalism will crack and decline in Europe (and perhaps across the west). Pat Buchanan straight up said it's all too late, Mark Steyn said in an interview that (Paraphrased as fuck) ' it won't be a total collapse, but there will be a great pruning, the question is how much will be pruned.'

I don't think that historically, conservatives have ever been as pessimistic as they are currently are. Even during the height of Mccarthyism during the cold war, there was wide Communist fear, but this never manifested as 'The Soviets are almost certainly destined to win and there's nothing we can do about it'. Edmund Burke wasn't all 'IT'S TOO LATE BRUH', so at some point something definitely changed.