There are three separate threads of reactionary thought:
- Religious Reactionaries are primarily concerned with the declining status of Christianity in American law, thought, and culture;
- Economic Reactionaries lament their loss of status as the result of technological change and globalization: and
- Racial Reactionaries worry that “real” American culture is being swamped by outsiders, who demand cuts in line.
These categories are hardly mutually exclusive; many Reactionaries would fall into all three of them. Not all of them, however.
So how do you deal with them, and are they entitled to any sympathy? In the case of the Christians, they have thousands of years on their side, and they can be mollified by carve-outs. Everyone would agree that we should try to find a way to improve the lot of the second group that doesn’t involve tariffs. Only the third group is beyond redemption. We have nothing to offer them except an acknowledgement that there will always be a place for white people in this country.