@cwebber
This:
It is, and has always been, “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas,” and to ‘post-liberal’ ‘intellectuals’, that is in fact a good thing – if anything, they believe, the postmodern right needs to become more absurd; it needs to abandon Enlightenment ideals like reason and argumentation altogether. The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’