Machissimo is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Trump right. Would-be tough guys like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity act like thirteen-year-old boys in a locker room. Their George S. Patton posturing gets mighty old. The Alt Right likes to dismiss their opponents as "low-T conservatives." I guess that the people I grew up venerating like William F. Buckley and George F. Will look like nervous old ladies to those who learned their principles from shock jocks like Michael Savage.
The granddaddy of conservative thought in the English-speaking world is Edmund Burke, who like his similar American counterpart, John Adams, was a learned gentleman. Isaac Kramnick's 70s biography called Burke a homosexual; how do you get more low-T than that? Burkean conservatism is something that very few wave the flag for, and none of those people are on Fox News.
The granddaddy of conservative thought in the English-speaking world is Edmund Burke, who like his similar American counterpart, John Adams, was a learned gentleman. Isaac Kramnick's 70s biography called Burke a homosexual; how do you get more low-T than that? Burkean conservatism is something that very few wave the flag for, and none of those people are on Fox News.
