an immediate reaction i always have as someone who has lived in a communitarian setting is: who’s going to clean all this?
July 26, 2026 at 12:35 PM
an immediate reaction i always have as someone who has lived in a communitarian setting is: who’s going to clean all this?
The key distinction here is that most normies reject the idea that immigrants are a communitarian or civilizational threat. Trump and Miller are losing the country (per @jamellebouie.net) because that's far outside the mainstream. We can seize this moment to advance our own communitarian argument:
Miller is so extreme he is losing part of the American right: Joe Rogan "calls it “horrific” to arrest “normal, regular people that have been here for 20 years” in “front of their kids.”"
This articulation of what belonging and community means in America captures something fundamental:
This articulation of what belonging and community means in America captures something fundamental:
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The key distinction here is that most normies reject the idea that immigrants are a communitarian or civilizational threat. Trump and Miller are losing the country (per @jamellebouie.net) because that's far outside the mainstream. We can seize this moment to advance our own communitarian argument:
Very Minneapolis on-brand to come through a wildly inspiring communitarian moment to a video of Jacob Frey running alone
March 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Very Minneapolis on-brand to come through a wildly inspiring communitarian moment to a video of Jacob Frey running alone
It’s not my political ball game but if I was trying to undertake a political project that required substantial expressions of communitarian solidarity, I would resist the urge to shit on expressions of communitarian solidarity
February 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It’s not my political ball game but if I was trying to undertake a political project that required substantial expressions of communitarian solidarity, I would resist the urge to shit on expressions of communitarian solidarity
i think it's cool and not weird at all that for all of its communitarian messaging every star trek character's ultimate dream is seemingly to live in a beautiful and enormous cottage on an otherwise abandoned planet
June 5, 2024 at 12:31 PM
i think it's cool and not weird at all that for all of its communitarian messaging every star trek character's ultimate dream is seemingly to live in a beautiful and enormous cottage on an otherwise abandoned planet
Hey postliberal religious conservatives: This woman jailed and getting deported after living in a Missouri town for 20 years converted to Catholicism, delivers a powerful communitarian message, and speaks with deep gratitude toward the Trump voters backing her cause.
newrepublic.com/article/1959...
newrepublic.com/article/1959...
June 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hey postliberal religious conservatives: This woman jailed and getting deported after living in a Missouri town for 20 years converted to Catholicism, delivers a powerful communitarian message, and speaks with deep gratitude toward the Trump voters backing her cause.
newrepublic.com/article/1959...
newrepublic.com/article/1959...
Nothing bad ever comes from groups that tack "National" in front of a communitarian ideology.
January 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nothing bad ever comes from groups that tack "National" in front of a communitarian ideology.
a focus on content moderation and censorship is a losing battle, and we have ten years of evidence to suggest it is a lost cause. it stimulates our own authoritarian instincts while leaving the problem untouched, and splits the pro-democracy coalition into libertarian and communitarian factions
September 28, 2026 at 1:15 PM
a focus on content moderation and censorship is a losing battle, and we have ten years of evidence to suggest it is a lost cause. it stimulates our own authoritarian instincts while leaving the problem untouched, and splits the pro-democracy coalition into libertarian and communitarian factions
Ed Sheeran claiming to be 'culturally Irish' gives the vibe that he thought being Irish was pints o' Guinness and shamrocks rather than implacable multi-generational communitarian struggle against imperialism.
September 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Ed Sheeran claiming to be 'culturally Irish' gives the vibe that he thought being Irish was pints o' Guinness and shamrocks rather than implacable multi-generational communitarian struggle against imperialism.
Given that the communitarian alternative seems to be either nasty gossip or lynch mob with basically no room in between, I’ll take prison
August 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Given that the communitarian alternative seems to be either nasty gossip or lynch mob with basically no room in between, I’ll take prison
Since we're doing natalism discourse, my recommendation for ensuring increased births is twofold: communitarian restructuring of the family and remuneration of domestic labour at substantial sums.
March 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Since we're doing natalism discourse, my recommendation for ensuring increased births is twofold: communitarian restructuring of the family and remuneration of domestic labour at substantial sums.
I've tried to suggest the critical distinction is voters support orderly process but don't see immigrants as a negative in the communitarian or civilizational terms that postlibs, MAGA, et al do. Pundits overread Trump win as backlash to world created by 1965 act:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've tried to suggest the critical distinction is voters support orderly process but don't see immigrants as a negative in the communitarian or civilizational terms that postlibs, MAGA, et al do. Pundits overread Trump win as backlash to world created by 1965 act:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
do you want a re-enchanted communitarian order? Or do you just want to wipe the smile off the smug face of that woke 30-something woman in your department who got promoted ahead of you and reminds you uncomfortably of your ex-wife? Most post-liberals deep down have a clear preference for the latter
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
do you want a re-enchanted communitarian order? Or do you just want to wipe the smile off the smug face of that woke 30-something woman in your department who got promoted ahead of you and reminds you uncomfortably of your ex-wife? Most post-liberals deep down have a clear preference for the latter
My own politics are communitarian, nationalist, decentralist and economically radical. It’s a shame that Blue Labour has become a right-wing parody of such ideas.
Correct. Rutherford is a lot more infuential (and less mad) than Glasman. He wrote Starmer's first speech after he was announced as leader.
His philosophy will familiar if you've ever ploughed through a John Gray book/article.
His philosophy will familiar if you've ever ploughed through a John Gray book/article.
It’ll get less traction than Glasman saying something mad (again) but this @siennarodgers.bsky.social piece on Jonathan Rutherford is a better guide to where& how Blue Labour is influencing govt www.politicshome.com/news/article...
May 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
My own politics are communitarian, nationalist, decentralist and economically radical. It’s a shame that Blue Labour has become a right-wing parody of such ideas.
Yes, the Nordic model is communitarian, not libertarian.
October 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Yes, the Nordic model is communitarian, not libertarian.
Correct. It's Graeber's bullshit job thesis restated in right-communitarian/postliberal vibes, except the bullshit jobs are all in the public sector instead of the private sector, as Graeber argued.
is "unproductive" jobs again this kindergarden-level "materialism" where if you don't produce a literal physical object then you're not producing anything
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Correct. It's Graeber's bullshit job thesis restated in right-communitarian/postliberal vibes, except the bullshit jobs are all in the public sector instead of the private sector, as Graeber argued.
When I have to do so, I usually say "Canada is more communitarian than the United States because the Canadian term for 'rugged individualist' is 'corpsicle'."
June 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
When I have to do so, I usually say "Canada is more communitarian than the United States because the Canadian term for 'rugged individualist' is 'corpsicle'."
far end of the horseshoe, anarchist without any of the communitarian principles. it’s just rich nihilism.
March 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
far end of the horseshoe, anarchist without any of the communitarian principles. it’s just rich nihilism.
"Small town tolerance" is 90% propaganda. Rhetorically everyone values 'minding their own business' and in practice this is true about 1/10 the time.
Urban areas seem to be somewhat reversed - rhetorically communitarian (for better & worse), practically more individualistic
Urban areas seem to be somewhat reversed - rhetorically communitarian (for better & worse), practically more individualistic
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"Small town tolerance" is 90% propaganda. Rhetorically everyone values 'minding their own business' and in practice this is true about 1/10 the time.
Urban areas seem to be somewhat reversed - rhetorically communitarian (for better & worse), practically more individualistic
Urban areas seem to be somewhat reversed - rhetorically communitarian (for better & worse), practically more individualistic
We have a big piece coming next week that really attempts to dig deep into this basic disconnect between the MAGA civilizational/communitarian-threat view of immigration and the mainstream view that even people like Joe Rogan are now gravitating towards. Stay tuned!
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We have a big piece coming next week that really attempts to dig deep into this basic disconnect between the MAGA civilizational/communitarian-threat view of immigration and the mainstream view that even people like Joe Rogan are now gravitating towards. Stay tuned!
Books to understand the postliberal right: the last book isn't out yet but is written by a friend from Twitter
June 20, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Books to understand the postliberal right: the last book isn't out yet but is written by a friend from Twitter
Every communitarian notion rejects it, even the ‘progressive’ ones. An enormous swath of Marxism rejects it. And it is anathema to conservatism. It’s an extremely unpopular view that we should nonetheless fight for
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Every communitarian notion rejects it, even the ‘progressive’ ones. An enormous swath of Marxism rejects it. And it is anathema to conservatism. It’s an extremely unpopular view that we should nonetheless fight for
Liberalism is individualist where socialism is communitarian, and universalist where conservatism is particularist (and often communitarian as well).
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August 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Liberalism is individualist where socialism is communitarian, and universalist where conservatism is particularist (and often communitarian as well).
Also, I don't know how you square this stuff with either being a communitarian/paternalist Conservative *or* being a free marketeer, because even with the latter the restaurant will ask so they don't get sued.
July 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Also, I don't know how you square this stuff with either being a communitarian/paternalist Conservative *or* being a free marketeer, because even with the latter the restaurant will ask so they don't get sued.