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The Weird Intellectual Roots of J.D. Vance’s Hatred for “Cat Ladies”

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Frida Ghitis : J.D. Vance's comment about Democrats running the Democratic Party was hardly surprising.

She says he belongs to a movement, often referred to as the “New Right ,” that is far more extreme than most people understand.

Ghitis says the roots of the New Right’s ideology lie in a particular interpretation of the work of the midcentury political theorist Leo Strauss .

In the New Right worldview to which Vance subscribes, hierarchies of power are a fact of life.

In Vance ’s world, power, God, and money are all on the same side, and lies are just another way of speaking a deeper truth.

The only real question is whether the top ranks are staffed with the woke cat ladies of the left or the manly trad men.