“Liberal” and “conservative” are exactly as coherent as “Republican” and “Democrat”, i.e., not at all, which is why we need helper labels like “fiscal conservative” and “social conservative”, to shoehorn completely unlike things into one voting bloc. This is only about ensuring that each party magically continues to control its 50% share; if the parties and their messaging were to disappear, “liberal” and “conservative” as categories would vanish with them.
The American Conservative manages to bring together many unlike perspectives; I have been reading it for a while as my go-to spike of thoughtful commentary from the right. The comments are generally great, and the commenters appear to come from across the political spectrum. I don’t go there looking for agreement, but I often find much to agree with. In particular the writing of Daniel Larison (which is what brings many of the readers to the site) is some of the best, most stridently anti-imperialist and anti-war voices on the Internet - I don’t see many on the so-called left writing as consistently about the Saudi/American war in Yemen.
