The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance: Where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.
...some of those who seem to speak to him the loudest—the journalist Sohrab Ahmari, blogger Rod Dreher, and Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, among others—belong to an elite coterie of illiberal Christian conservatives animated by an attitude reminiscent of what historian Fritz Stern once called the “politics of cultural despair.”
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Long read.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/influence-austrofascism-on-jd-vance