Dan O'Brien: What sort of older currents fed into this shift? Like, what sort of dissidence against the fusionist consensus when that consensus was at its height? Or is the new right reading pat. buchanan's friend and ally, sam francis,. who argued in the last decades of the twentieth century that the real culture war should be a middle american class war on coastal elites. And then there's also murray rothbard, who married mesian neo liberalism with paleo conservatism but who's maybe more of a figure for the altright than the new right.