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Today, as every Wednesday, I bring you a dispatch from my colleague Tina Nguyen, who went there so we don’t have to: the third annual National Conservative Conference, a gathering of right-wing thinkers trying, often in vain, to build an intellectual scaffolding around the MAGA movement. This year’s confab, Tina notes, was a “bewildering fusion of isolationists and neocons, evangelicals, homosexuals, and, yes, a few monarchists, all united against a common enemy: the libs.”
The issue at hand is one the movement has been grappling with ever since Donald Trump became the Republican nominee and MAGA became a movement: can Trumpism survive Trump, and if so, how? Or, as Tina puts it, “whether MAGA can be tamed.”
Did they figure it out? Did they settle on whom they prefer, the O.G. orange man himself, or the shape-shifting Ron DeSantis who is just so eager to tear the banner from Trump’s hands and carry it into the future? Well, you’ll just have to read Tina’s excellent reporting to find out.
Cheers, friends. I’ll see you back here next week. And guess what? Tomorrow will actually be better because I’ll be able to eat!
Julia
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| Last month’s third annual National Conservative Conference—the now yearly convention of the academics and public intellectuals trying to build an ideological structure inside the MAGA movement—was notable, at first blush, for two things. First, its relocation from Orlando to Miami, the New Right mecca for crypto-friendly, vax-skeptical, post-Trump futurists. And second, its bewildering fusion of isolationists and neocons, evangelicals, homosexuals, and, yes, a few monarchists, all united against a common enemy: the libs.
The future of Trumpism, after all, begins with coalition-building to articulate an agenda that can survive Trump, himself. So far, it’s more dark vibes than uplifting policy. A video promo for the NatCon event, which opened with footage of cars on fire and protesters tearing down Confederate statues... |
