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Originally Posted by BitchiBee
The Bordieu piece is legit but this book was not written by the David Brooks of the NYT, but by an Australian with the same name. See
here.
I just skimmed the Bordieu piece real quick but it's not clear to me how it contains anything that would disqualify a person from identifying as conservative. I mean, it's kind of a fluff piece, but the core argument ("Donald Trump... [is] a genius at the symbolic warfare Bourdieu described. He’s a genius at upending the social rules and hierarchies that the establishment classes (of both right and left) have used to maintain dominance.") doesn't seem like one that's particularly liberal. And I think Bordieu's concept of habitus is fairly useful, sociologically. I also don't see any reason to think of it as a particularly partisan concept. It's just a way of thinking about social capital and its relation to political and economic power.