Reason - The Post-Liberal Authoritarians Want You To Forget That Private Companies Have Rights
JD Vance observes that government and corporate activities are significantly intertwined, concluding that "there is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the American regime". He appears to not be arguing about whether there should be or not, but observing that a strict division between private activity and public policy is blurred. For him, however, it is not that private interests dominate the government; government attitudes and policies have already bent the private sector into "woke" positions. In response, he wants to wield the power of government not to create a new division between public and private (a "Burkean" model), but to install conservative values into the private sector. The magazine Reason, not being of the New Right, finds this abhorrent and downplays both regulatory capture and government influence. One option that allows for a lack of coordination is explained by the blogger Mencius Moldbug, who argues that there is a pattern of similar action that, while it may not be done by actual conspiracy, acts together as though it was coordinated.
