In a taxonomy of young #conservatives, Sam Adler-Bell in the New Republic pointed out that these #NatCons (as they’re called) are among a variety of alt ideas popping up to *intellectualize* #Trumpism. But, in recent yrs, they have taken on a larger cache. NYT columnist David Brooks, dismayed by the conference’s rise, would in 2021 call NatCon attendees the “terrifying future of the American right.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/164408/young-intellectuals-illiberal-revolution-conservatism

The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right

They hate the establishment. They want to destroy the system. Meet the illiberal upstarts trying to remake conservatism.

^{The New Republic}