In general, neoreactionaries seem to have cribbed this position from Herbert Butterfield’s critique of what he called the “Whig Interpretation of History”. Butterfield was not himself a neoreactionary, and infact warned against the trap that many neoreactionaries fall into: that of thinking that just because Whig histories are invalid, that this somehow makes Tory histories valid.
In general, neoreactionaries seem to have cribbed this position from Herbert Butterfield’s critique of what he called the “Whig Interpretation of History”. Butterfield was not himself a neoreactionary, and infact warned against the trap that many neoreactionaries fall into: that of thinking that just because Whig histories are invalid, that this somehow makes Tory histories valid.