Gingrich said: “There is an old world that’s much deeper than just liberalism and there is the post-8 November world, if we can make it real.” When he says “liberalism,” it’s never clear whether he’s talking about dirty f*cking hippies or the Enlightenment. Lefties like to dismiss the right’s “fever dreams,” but their logic isn’t really dreamy — it’s the logic of a different episteme they long for, the neomonarchist world they aim to restore. That is Gingrich’s “old world that’s much deeper than just liberalism.” Gingrich is a kook, but the wealth he’s fronting for thinks it’s within reach.
(Guardian)