National conservatism, the post-liberal movement that theorized the use of state power to wage right-wing culture war, stands historically triumphant. And yet, as the natcons met last week in downtown Washington to celebrate their conquest and stomp on the face of liberal democracy, they encountered a nettlesome problem. It was the same one that has popped up recurrently in right-wing nationalist movements over the centuries: what to do about the Jews.As in past years, the National Conservatism Conference featured an eclectic array of spokespeople. There was Jack Posobiec, a popular right-wing conspiracy theorist, and John Eastman, the attorney who oversaw the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, along with some Republican senators (Eric Schmitt, Jim Banks, Josh Hawley) and Trump-administration officials (Russell Vought, Tom Homan, Tulsi Gabbard, Harmeet Dhillon).The big secret of intellectual right-wing authoritarianism is that it’s just not very intellectual. At the conference, opposing views appeared only as… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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