Here's a fun read (pdf) that helps explains why Critical Social Justice and MAGA aren't all that different. They're both critical theories, just with opposite goals.
http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/right-wing-populism.pdf
Excerpt, lightly edited. You cannot, literally cannot, tell this (paleo-libertarian Murray Rothbard) apart from the arguments of radical Neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse.
Rothbard's essay (linked above) lays out the America First (literally) right-wing populist doctrine that he intended for Pay Buchanan that, via the Pauls, especially Ron, has been channelled down to a familiar philosophy and doctrine in today's politics: Trump's.
Rothbard connected directly with Marcuse's New Left, largely via Karl Hess, in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Hess left in 1971 to join the Black Panthers), taking on elements of critical theory for criticizing the establishment (right and left), especially cultural elites.
Calling this (highly ascendant) wing of libertarianism, characterized by the pre-Koch Tea Party, "critical government studies," as I have been doing, is therefore not just accurate in form or kinda cute and funny. It *actually is* critical government studies.
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