Right Divides Over Technology

A renewed intellectual engagement with thinkers like Ernst Jünger is sharpening a two‑way split on the political Right: one camp argues for integrating and shaping technology to preserve human virtues, the other for radically curbing or rejecting technological expansion as a civilizational threat. That disagreement now intersects with practical debates over AI, surveillance, and governance and is producing distinct policy vocabularies and coalitions. — If the conservative movement fractures into distinct techno‑optimist and techno‑pessimist blocs, it will reshape public coalitions on AI regulation, industrial policy, and cultural tech norms.