The Two "Far-Rights" (and why they oppose each other)

[darklordoftech]

Peter Beinart has written some great pieces in the past year and a half or so on the split between traditional Republican orthodoxy and “Trump-ism”.  His latest one is probably the best, and it’s about how white rural voters have become more secular over the last few decades, but that rather than this causing the culture wars to diminish, they’re now simply fought over different issues:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/

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But Beinart has some other good pieces on Trump-ism and “American exceptionalism”, and how Trump’s Jacksonian wing of the GOP has a much dimmer view of the Muslim world than the “neocon” foreign policy wing, and how that connects Trump’s views on foreign policy to his views on immigration, etc.:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/donald-trumps-formula-for-success-in-foreign-policy/417456/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/do-republicans-still-think-america-is-exceptional/492356/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-trump-wants-to-make-america-exceptional-again/515406/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/for-trump-we-have-a-lot-of-killers-isnt-a-criticism/515748/

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The religiousness of white rural voters and the culture wars over religious issues had three causes: The Cold War, the Warren Court and Roe v. Wade, and the upheaval of the 1960s. Now that the Cold War is over and people who want to go back to 1950s America are dying off, religion has become less important.

[darklordoftech]

The OP seems to describe the difference between neoconservatism (Reagan/the Bushes) and paleoconservatism (Pat Buchanan/Steve Bannon/Trump).