António Vieira da Cruz

(originalmente publicado na revista The European Conservative ) William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) “Chega!” is the Portuguese phrase for “Enough!” Does such an interjection sound   conservative   to you? Neither to me. However, the new Portuguese party named “Chega!” claims to be conservative. Founded in 2019 by André Ventura, Chega won 7% of the votes in the last legislative elections and became the third largest party in Parliament. Since then, the international media have taken for granted that Chega is a conservative party. I would like to dispute that idea and make a broader reflection about the conservative brand. I am writing this article in rural Portugal, in a town where the Chega party currently is leading the opposition against the Socialist party. Many of the rural people whom I know voted for Chega, and some of them are my friends. Hillary Clinton was terribly wrong in thinking that such a group of supporters were deplorable—in fact, all parties have good people wi...

 (originalmente publicado no Jacaré ) "Forgotten Man" de Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) As soon as A observes something which seems to him wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or in the better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X... What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays. ~  William Graham Sumner  (1840-1910), Universidade de Yale, 1883.