# Conservatism — a revolutionary, misguided coalition for the unpopular (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 2024-07-29
Previous Part: https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/conservatism-a-revolutionary-misguided-coalition-for-the-unpopular.part1.md

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In the end Southern revolutionaries were unsuccessful keeping their rural, racist, extreme Christianity, patriarchal, anti-immigration (or at least the non-slavery kind), increasingly unpopular lifestyle going. Had they not revolted perhaps Juneteenth would have been pushed back another fifty years.

Likely the tech billionaires [who backed JD Vance](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html)

> Mr. Vance’s stint in tech was crucial for forging connections with billionaire executives and investors, including Mr. Thiel, Mr. Sacks and [Elon Musk](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/technology/elon-musk-trump.html), who owns X. Over and over, those men have funded Mr. Vance’s political ambitions, raised his profile among other wealthy donors and on social media, and lobbied Mr. Trump to choose him as his running mate.

are well aware that they will turn on rural America in the end. It’s true that all three grew up under South African governance but that won’t make them the kind of fascists that rural America wants.

Do you think Mr. Thiel, the guy who funded the [Enhanced Games](https://enhanced.org) (where “The race for superhumanity is on.”), is going to end up supporting some backwater West Virginia version of humanity? Conservatives are simply making deals with devils.