On the Sunday Special episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec posted a speech he gave to the Turning Point USA Chapter at the University of Central Florida where he spoke on the power and momentum of the New Right and how it differentiates itself from previous iterations of conservatism.
"I have much love and respect for my libertarian brethren, but we need a big stick right now," Posobiec said. "We need a big stick when it comes to government and you need that style of a true leader of the people who is doing their work and willing to stand up to corporations, whether it be Twitter, whether it be Big Pharma, whether it be Disney—as was done here by the governor—that is the mentality that I really think encapsulates what we call the 'New Right'."
At CPAC in August, Posobiec said the New Right is "new ideas to take the fight to the front lines," and defined it as a coalition built around action and forward momentum to protect the rights enshrined by God.
Speaking to the UCF Chapter of TPUSA Posobiec created a distinction between the New Right and smaller movements that have previously captured conservatism, such as libertarianism.
Posobiec said the New Right has to move on from the idea that "'Oh, we have to shrink the government and cut everything'," which is common to movements such as modern libertarianism.
While the 20th Century libertarian movement owed much to economists like Murray Rothbard who pontificated on property rights' relationship to governmental fiscal policy, the movement evolved in the 21st Century into a version in pursuit of utopia, where the orthodoxy of small government intervention crossed into the territory of questionable intellectual defenses.
As The Post Millennial reported, one example was the libertarian defense of the 2020 film Cuties, which was about minors twerking in hypersexualized fashion.
"We also need to use the tools that our founding fathers gave us to better our people and also to preserve our rights," Posobiec said. "Because our rights don't come from the government. Our rights also don't even come from the Constitution, believe it or not. They come from God."
Posobiec also explained that the Constitution and the US government were man-made institutions designed to recognize and preserve the human rights bestowed by God.
The New Right doesn't disavow limiting principles, according to Posobiec, so long as they are rooted in truth.
He gave the example of Rachel Levine, Joe Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health and a biological male who identifies as transgender.
Posobiec said that when someone says, "'it is important to affirm Rachel Levine's gender identity," then "we have to deconstruct" who is saying that it is important to make that affirmation.
When the New Right goes out into the world and competes they have to realize the power of coding these questions into AI and develop an awareness of how these tools must be used in the pursuit of truth.
