The Left turned the country into a Democratic Socialist state back under FDR. It's been slowly liberalizing since then. The Republican Party has been controlled opposition since then too. One of the strongest pulls away from Socialism didn't come from Eisenhower, but Kennedy.

The reason the political right has any ground at all is because of the appeal of principles and nothing else. Every other effort to "win without principles* just gives you more Fabian Socialist Republicans in power like Nixon, Rockefeller, Bush, Romney and the entire Republican establishment.

If I were to take this approach as a Libertarian, I would be supporting the Koch Brothers efforts at Corporatist lolbertarianism, and I'd have to explain why axschkully: open borders a right-wing position or whatever garbage.

I don't, and I instead support the Mises Caucus because the 1964 Civil Rights act should be repealed and Civil Rights are a Leftist construct anyways.

The reason I don't abandon principles and accept Leftism is because Leftism is a philosophy of War. If you adopt the same philosophy, you become a Leftist.

And it's not actually a very effective strategy. It's a self-destructive one that gets you to seize power, which you then lose to other Leftists. You build nothing even if you seize power, and you are inevitably overthrown by more ruthless Leftists than you fought off in the first place, and everything goes to shit. That's how all right-wing authoritarianism ends up.

It's because you can't beat a philosophy of War. There is no mechanism to defeat it, it's an original evil. You have to starve it to death, by not allowing it to fester and grow in the first place: with strong, principled, resilient, and decentralized moral institutions.

You never fight the enemy's war.