The Gary DeMar Show: Gary North: 'The Bulwarks of the Conservative Movement'

Source:The Gary DeMar Show- Conservative author Gary North.

"The key book that led the conservative movement in the 20th century was "The Road to Serfdom" by the author F. A. Hayek. On the other end of the economic philosophical spectrum was John Maynard Keynes. These two economists were friends at Cambridge, but they were both battling for the economical worldviews of British leadership. Hayek's book was made popular when Reader's Digest chose to write a summary article of the book. This launch the conservative ideas into the public sphere, ultimately into popular reading of the intellectual American right. Accelerating the impact of Hayek's book was Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson," that was published a year later. These two books forced a complete rethinking of the war time economics and 'the new deal.'

In this video, Gary DeMar interviews Dr. North (in six parts) about his brand new DVD series "The History of the Conservative Movement" (available now at AmericanVision.com). This is part five of the six parts of this interview." 

From The Gary DeMar Show

I think it's important that people know what you are talking about and that you know what you are talking about when you use phrases and terms like the conservative movement. You need to know what you are talking about when you say conservative movement to people and whoever you are talking too or listens to you, when you say the conservative movement. 

Whether you are talking about Conservative Libertarians or Classical Conservatives, or even people that I at least like to call Progressive Republicans or Right-Progressives, or you are talking about the so-called Christian-Right, people who are right-wing populists in America, you have to know that all these factions are not part of the same so-called conservative movement. 

Conservative Libertarians or Classical Conservatives are more conservative than the Christian-Right on the Constitution, limited government, economic policy and national security. And Right-Progressives are also more conservative than the Christian-Right on the Constitution, limited government, and national security. 

The Christian-Right is obviously to the right of Classical Conservatives and Right-Progressives on social policy and want a bigger government and even a bigger national government, with a lot more restrictions on how individuals can live when it comes to social policy and social issues.

I don't think there's such thing in America as a conservative movement, unless you are talking about conservatism in a classical and constitutional sense and people who believe in conserving the U.S. Constitution, our limited, Federal form of government, with all the individual rights and rule of law that comes from our form of government and our Constitution. 

I believe there are several rightist movements in America from the Center-Right, where I tend to be ideologically, to the right-wing, and the Far-Right in America, where the Christian-Right, Nationalists, and Neo-Confederates tend to be ideologically.

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