Your Guide to the New Right
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About this episode
Guest host David French interviews Reason senior editor Stephanie Slade on the rise of the New Right. She defines the movement by its illiberal rejection of limited government, individual liberty, and the neutral rule of law, tracing its leading figures — J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis — and its embrace of punitive state power in the name of 'common good' conservatism and Trumpism. They discuss the animating role of anger and masculinity, online transgression curdling into genuine conviction, the presence of racism and antisemitism including figures like Nick Fuentes, the movement's institution-building ambitions, and the influence of Catholic integralism and Christian nationalism.