What Is National Conservatism?
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A new group of thinkers and activists calling themselves national conservatives believe American politics and policy questions increasingly invite a national approach. They seek to combat the left's attempt to bury our constitutional order and replace it with a matrix of identity politics, vast social spending, and other objectives.
Chris DeMuth, a leader of the national conservatism movement and former president of the American Enterprise Institute, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explore the main trends of American conservatism and what national conservatism brings to the discussion. Conservatism must move beyond, DeMuth argues, a fusionism that makes individual freedom the only end sought by policy and understand that culture, patriotism, community, and faith are equally important for policymaking.
On today's episode, we discuss the thinkers, ideas, and books that national conservatism offers amid current political challenges and debates: Should conservatism embrace a worker first set of policies—industrial policy, labor-union revival, and wage subsides? How would national conservatism navigate foreign policy? Is realism and restraint the best approach for American defense strategy in the 21st Century? What does national conservatism bring regarding health care, environmental, and education policies?
Our lively discussion also considers the post-liberal conservatives and how they fit or do not fit into national conservatism. Listen to the interview or read a lightly edited transcript at DailySignal.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special bonus edition of the Daily Signal podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Richard Ranch and today we'll be talking with Chris Dumuth of the Hudson Institute |
| 0:16.5 | about the national conservative movement that he is helping to lead. |
| 0:31.5 | Today I'm joined by Chris Dumuth at Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, long time present |
| 0:37.6 | of the American Enterprise Institute, veteran of Republican presidential administrations, |
| 0:44.0 | distinguished career in Washington and we're going to be talking about all things national |
| 0:48.9 | conservatism today. Chris I'm glad to have you on. Richard it's great to be here with you and |
| 0:54.9 | congratulations are in store. Congratulations are due to you for your distinguished career at Liberty |
| 1:03.6 | Fund and Law and Liberty and congratulations to the Heritage Foundation for snaring you. |
| 1:10.8 | This is a great move on their part and I know it's going to be a wonderful new association for both |
| 1:17.3 | of you. Well Chris thank you so much for that and of course recently in your career you have |
| 1:23.4 | become involved with a movement known as national conservatism and I look forward to discussing that |
| 1:29.1 | with you today. You've obviously had a long career in Washington working within the conservative |
| 1:33.4 | movement and all of its interesting elements and facets. What got you interested in national |
| 1:39.3 | conservatism you've been involved in their major conferences and the last conference you were |
| 1:45.1 | chairman of the conference so maybe talk about that. I think as the 2010s were beginning I was |
| 1:54.6 | seeing that there were new problems in American society that the conservative movement was not |
| 2:02.0 | addressing sufficiently in my in my long career within the movement I had seen |
| 2:08.6 | developments along the way that had seemed to me to be adverse that I'd argued against. |
| 2:16.6 | For example the centralization of the conservative movement in Washington there was a time |
| 2:25.4 | Richard as a Hoosier you may remember the old American spectator in Bloomington, Indiana |
| 2:31.6 | and the neo-conservative public interest in New York City and with the Reagan administration |
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