The Tory Tradition

The Imaginative Conservative ^ | July 13th, 2020 | Michael J. Connolly

[TBP]

There is a Tory tradition in America that runs against the grain of establishment Liberalism, embracing home, hearth, community, family, church, nature, and the moral realities of everyday life, and opposed to individualism, unlimited free markets, libertarianism, secularism, and the rootless loneliness of global modernity. This tradition comes from within America, not without.

“Conservatism,” a movement built in the unique pressures of the Cold War, is metamorphosing into new forms. The Cold War is long over. New considerations based on new circumstances are emerging on the Right—in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States—that closely resemble those of Saintsbury’s Toryism, long overshadowed but now reemerging. Tory principles have a genealogy from which to draw.

[TBP]

The interesting differences between Tory conservatism (the traditionalist wing) and classic liberal-Whig conservatism.

But we are united in opposition to the depradations of progressivism-socialism.

[marron]

embracing home, hearth, community, family, church, nature, and the moral realities of everyday life

But typically also very individualistic. At least in the American traditional culture, these are not in opposition.

[Oklahoma]

I am not a Tory. One self described Tory is George Will.

[kaehurowing]

We still toast the Queen in our house.

[NobleFree]

One self described Tory is George Will.

Will is full of s***.

[ncpatriot]

Oh my word.....

[TBP]

But also the late Dr. Russell Kirk.