you used it across two posts as some sort of evidence that he was out of touch and wrong. Looks like that's you that isn't across everything.
As for all of this infighting, this is structural and inevitable. The "new right" is about 7 different ideologies that don't mix and MAGA's intergration over the past 10 years upset the delicate balance of Buckley's fusionism that was achieved through compromise. Due to MAGA, it's a party built on in-group out group dynamics entirely now, and cult of personality. WIthout the correct leader, it collapses.
- free markets vs protectionism
- interventionist war hawks vs isolationists
- "meritocracy" based immigration vs identitarian white nationalists (Feuntes)
- libertarian social values (weed, porn) vs social conservatives
- giant tax cuts (libertarians and small government GOP) vs a social safety net ("America 1st")
- transhumanist techlords that was to surveil everything and have bunch of serfs v human beings and Christians
They've been kicking the can down the road and trying to avoid all of this through the Trump cult of personality effect. Your are going to see some interesting things happen over the next few years insdie the New RIght/
Charlie Kirk sort of made it work, but even he was having trouble dealing with Israeli lobbyists and white nationalists like Feuntes. Now that he is gone, and Trump is self-sabotaging economically, with Israel and with Epstein... looks like it is kicking off now.
And Erika Kirk is in the centre of the storm and she is not capable of dealing with all of this and the factions in the right want to use her and the Kirk legacy for their own differing aims, as seen with Ben Shapiro vs Steve Bannon.