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Yoram Hazony
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says it's "unexpected" to find Chris DeMuth leading the conference, which it previously called "malignant" and "a direct threat to the American republic." Their confusion only shows they don't have any idea what's been happening in Washington over the last year.
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Yoram Hazony
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This was followed in February 2019 by a manifesto called "Trumpism, Nationalism and Conservatism" in the Claremont Review of Books. In it, DeMuth argued that a new "era of intellectual reformulation is underway" for American conservatism in light of the "nationalist revival."
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Yoram Hazony
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DeMuth counts three eras in post-war US conservatism: The first was led by William Buckley in the 1950s. The second was established by neoconservatives such as Irving Kristol in the 1970s. Now a third era, that of "conservative nationalism," has begun. DeMuth calls to embrace it.
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Yoram Hazony
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In fact, the National Conservatism Conference next week marks the moment in which the "intellectual reformulation" of conservatism that DeMuth described in his essays takes its first step out into the open as a coherent movement.
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Yoram Hazony
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DeMuth is right: A new era of national conservatism is coming in the U.S., UK, and other democratic countries. The desperate attacks of those who'd like to see us marching toward universal liberal empire don't matter. Our job now is to do a good job rethinking conservatism.
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