.Heritage is 50, and after a half-century as the gold standard in movement conservatism, it is grappling with a changing Right. Tax cuts, deregulation & opposition to abortion remain as important as when Reagan was president, but much else has changed.
Tax cuts, deregulation, and opposition to abortion remain as important to the conservative movement as when Ronald Reagan was president, but much else has changed. Immigration, trade, foreign policy, and even broader questions about whether government power should be used to advance traditionalist ends are being debated as never before.Some younger conservatives question whether the old movement was successful at conserving anything.
“Some legacy organizations, if you will, don’t even want to have the conversation with a New Right,” Roberts told the Washington Examiner. “I mean, our sponsorship of the National Conservatism Conference last year was a signal there. We didn’t agree with everything that was said.” But he said he thought the conversation was important.
Part of what distinguishes the so-called New Right from its elders is as much attitude as any policy position, which is why Trump, DeSantis, and Carlson are dominant figures. It isn’t all attitude, however. Roberts penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling for greater scrutiny over U.S. aid to Ukraine and implying there should be some limit to Washington’s commitment, even as he denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. “The war in Ukraine may finally force conservatives into the intramural foreign policy debate they have put off for more than 30 years,” he wrote.
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