The Realignment: Part 2
American Affairs and the Claremont Conservative vision. Christian nationalism and patriotic education. The Reagan (Counter)Revolution and MAGA. Populists for austerity.
In my last article on the Realignment, I focused on American Affairs, a new journal that seeks to give intellectual content to the baggy balloon ideology of Donald Trump. Their aim is to find some core of Trumpism in the chaos of Trump’s erratic politics, to help the National Conservative establishment’s populist posturing. That’s essentially what the s…