According to Rob Dreher, the Senior Editor at The American Conservative, Masters called on the American right to get comfortable using state power to achieve conservative ends and to reject the libertarian school of thought that has driven them to sit idly by as the left uses the power of the state themselves to transform America.
Increasingly, so-called conservatives have come under fire for embracing libertarian ideals and allowing the left to run roughshod over them. While the left uses the state to their own ends, the right is often too afraid to use the state to reverse the damage the left has done, claiming that would violate their laissez-faire approach to government.
“Libertarianism doesn’t work. Totalitarian leftism doesn’t work either,” Dreher reported Masters telling the audience.