{"id":995954,"date":"2021-11-10T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=995954"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:13:38","slug":"exclusive-what-is-national-conservatism-and-why-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-what-is-national-conservatism-and-why-should-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: What Is National Conservatism And Why Should You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-what-is-national-conservatism-and-why-should-you-care%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=995954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When Republican Glenn Youngkin secured an upset victory against Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial race last week, the House GOP credited the win to Americans rejecting socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Angry replies to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseGOP\/status\/1455887351360724993?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the tweet<\/a> revealed a stark divide between more conventional conservatives and National Conservatives, who are less concerned with how big the government is than what the government is being used to do. The latter pointed to the Youngkin campaign as proof their movement is the future of the Republican Party: As a candidate, Youngkin had rarely, if ever, mentioned socialism, focusing instead on the rising cost of living and the state\u2019s public school curriculum, vowing to use his term to purge the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT). <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/glenn-youngkin-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Youngkin Beats McAuliffe, Clinching First Statewide Win In Virginia For Republicans Since 2009)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the election in Virginia was a bunch of parents going to their school board and telling these radicals who are running the schools to cut the crap,\u201d Conservative commentator Michael Knowles told the Daily Caller in an interview. \u201cThe election I think came down to that one line from Terry McAuliffe, who said \u2018I don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u2019 The question was, who gets to raise our kids?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7314349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7314349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA \u2013 NOVEMBER 02: Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during an election-night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on November 02, 2021 in Chantilly, Virginia. Virginians went to the polls Tuesday to vote in the gubernatorial race that pitted Youngkin against Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s own campaign strategists agree, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/11\/08\/youngkin-team-how-we-beat-terry-mcauliffe-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing Monday in The Washington Post<\/a> that McAuliffe\u2019s now-infamous statement on education was \u201cthe gift gaffe of the cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Rufo, a National Conservative and the investigative journalist largely responsible for bringing attention to CRT curriculums in schools across the country, said the election was proof that Republicans can win on cultural issues, not only on bashing socialism. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/republicans-critical-race-theory-andrew-sullivan-christopher-rufo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republicans Are Turning Up The Heat With Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills And The Reaction Is Hitting A Boiling Point)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lesson from last night is that conservatives must courageously lean into the culture war,\u201d Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1455978593033588744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> the day after Youngkin\u2019s win. \u201cWe must protect American families against a hostile, nihilistic elite that seeks to use our public institutions as their private ideological weapons. We must stand tall and say \u2018No!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Rufo and Knowles spoke at the National Conservatism Conference (NCC) in Orlando, Florida, last week, which ended on the same day of Youngkin\u2019s win. There, the movement\u2019s leaders laid out both their intellectual foundation and their real-world policy goals. The message was clear: The fusionist mindset that had animated the Republican Party in recent decades is dead and buried.<\/p>\n<p>While National Conservatism often manifests in political campaigns as an emphasis on social issues, such as Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley\u2019s push against pornography, that is a reduction that misunderstands the movement, according to Knowles.<\/p>\n<p>Yoram Hazony, the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and so-called (by Knowles) \u201cGrand Poobah\u201d of National Conservatism, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can only think of politics as divided between foreign policy, economics and social issues \u2014 if you have to look at it that way, then I\u2019m not surprised that\u2019s what you end up saying,\u201d Hazony said. \u201cBut I think that\u2019s just a fundamental misframing, because the issue really is rethinking the 1960\u2019s fusion between public liberalism and private conservatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7259492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7259492\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7259492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Joshua Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Susan Walsh - Pool\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372-620x266.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372-1536x660.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hawley-scaled-e1628790969372-2048x880.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7259492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sen. Joshua Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Susan Walsh \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hazony says the movement is primarily a rejection of the coalition of conservatives and liberals that William F. Buckley created to overthrow communism abroad and defeat socialism at home. This alliance was a poison pill, National Conservatives say, in that conservative beliefs took a back seat to the classical liberal emphasis on individual liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shape of the alliance was that you should be liberal in the public space and uphold individual liberties, but encourage private conservatism,\u201d Hazony told the Caller. \u201cConservative beliefs were privatized, first getting shipped down to the state level, then the school level, and ultimately down to the individual\u2019s private belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazony says the elevation of individual liberty above all else has led to pushback because it doesn\u2019t allow for the discussion of any kind of common good other than maximizing personal liberty. The rejection of CRT in schools is one example of how ideologies based on individual freedom can conflict with the national interest or general welfare, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is: Is there such a thing as a national interest that needs to be expressed, including through government activism and the restriction of local freedoms?\u201d Hazony asked. \u201cShould states and the government be actively trying to prevent a neo-Marxist ideology from being taught in the schools and inculcated in private businesses and in the army?\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/21\/military-pentagon-defense-lloyd-austin-mark-milley-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Amid The Pentagon\u2019s CRT Campaign, Lloyd Austin Says \u2018It\u2019s Really Important\u2019 The Military Is \u2018Apolitical\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat whole set of questions is reframed when you stop thinking about conservatism as, you know, \u2018the private individual should do whatever he or she wants.\u2019 Look, we all believe in individual liberties and we cherish them and it\u2019s part of our tradition, but there is also such a thing as a national interest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The national interest can trump individual liberty when \u201cwhat you\u2019re facing is a movement that seeks to overthrow the most basic assumptions about American history and the way it\u2019s taught, and the role that parents have in the traditional family, and the role the traditional family has in constructing the larger nation \u2014 when you\u2019re seeing something that, obviously, its goal is to destroy God and scripture, nation and family, man and woman, and honor and sanctity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous high-profile Republicans have joined the National Conservative movement in abandoning the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2019\/03\/against-the-dead-consensus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dead consensus<\/a>\u201d in recent years. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, poster boys of establishment conservatism less than a decade ago, both spoke at the NCC last week. Also joining them were Hawley and J.D. Vance, a Republican running a 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Vance is running in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/United_States_Senate_election_in_Ohio,_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crowded Republican field<\/a>, and the fate of his explicitly National Conservative campaign is likely to be the next major test for the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Republican Glenn Youngkin secured an upset victory against Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial race last week, the House GOP credited the win to Americans rejecting socialism.Many conservatives disagreed.Angry &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}