How there can be two right wings

In my last diary I received this curious comment:

I usually think of left and right (0+ / 0-)

as relative terms that describe a political position within a spectrum based on the context of the time or place. In that case, to say there is no left in the United States doesn't make much sense. But it appears that you use the terms to describe two categories that are defined by unchanging ideological criteria. If that's the case, I suspect both the left and the right will fade out over time.

To be sure, AaronInSanDiego is nearly right about everything, or right about nearly everything.  I will explain below.  Nonetheless, I still find it useful to think of politics in this era as defined by two right wings, the corporate right and the antipublic right.  BACKGROUND: I use as a starting point for my discussion of the Right this diary, which argues that there are two dominant right wings in American politics, as follows:

...(there are) two different types of conservatives:

1) Antipublic conservatives -- conservatives who are interested in destroying the public sphere and the commons for the sake of some idea of radical, disconnected individualism that imagines everyone as individuals defending property with guns, or as beholden ideologically to the church of their choice (see e.g. Rick Santorum)...

2) Corporate conservatives -- conservatives who are mainly interested in "saving capitalism" (Obama's primary mandate) and who do so by maintaining corporate hegemony but who are also interested in buying off the mass public to the extent necessary to preserve the social order.  This version of conservatism might be called Rubinism (as David Mizner called it)...

At any rate, here is my explanation of the theory of the two right wings, below the fold.