Alexander Griffing While Trump Tweets, the American Right Embraces Neo-nationalism and Debates Illiberal Conservatism
Images / Patrick Semansky, AP Trump’s 'go home' invective echoes Nazi incitement against Jews U.S. envoy Greenblatt: Israel 'victim' in conflict, rejects the term 'settlements' My kid gets all of her news from ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ and that’s OK Since the end World War II, the Republican Party and the American right has been defined by a mix of classical liberalism and traditional conservatism — an ideology largely codified by the likes of William F. Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan. That approach to domestic and foreign policy, which valued above all protecting individual liberty and the free market while opposing authoritarianism, is now being challenged by a new type of neo-nationalism. It is spurred on by U.S. President Donald Trump and a new movement positioning itself to dominate the American right once Trump’s tenure ends. To this end, dozens of intellectual conservatism’s biggest names met in Washington’s Ritz