The Right’s liberal-and-traditionalist mix is coherent in Hayek’s doctrine

Evidence

Hayek’s concern with the threat posed by democracy to organically evolved community norms, and not only to freedom, reveals the logic underpinning what the Left often regards as inconsistency or hypocrisy on the Right today, namely, its aim simultaneously to shore up individual liberties and to expand the reach of traditional values. Yet these nest quite compatibly in the doctrine Hayek offers. By dedemocratizing the state and removing it from the equality business, not only markets but commonly held principles of a people, from racial norms to religious ones, may be legitimately protected from state interference and legitimately govern conduct. — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 125

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on chapter four’s earlier claim that patriotism as love of tradition frames racial-justice protest as unpatriotic; the Hayek logic supplies the mechanism. Connects to the immodesty article’s finding that moral-custom enforcement is treated as prior to state law. — connects to: Hayek held liberalism adaptive, maximizing spontaneity and minimizing coercion — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 565; Hayek held that ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2116; Hayek courted Christians as necessary allies for liberalism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 354 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Hayek held liberalism adaptive, maximizing spontaneity and minimizing coercion #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 565
• Apparent conservative ideological contradictions are strategically coherent #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1693
• Hayek courted Christians as necessary allies for liberalism #corroborates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 354
• Hayek sought a liberal utopia framed as radicalism, not defence of the status quo #corroborates (0.80) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 275
• Hayek held that ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2116