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What's New in the The label “New Right” is increasingly used to lump
together a disparate collection  of intellectual movements

New Right? and online communities, from Catholic integralists to

national conservatives, techno-libertarians to MAGA

Josh Hammer populists, right-wing antitrust activists to followers of

Pepe the Frog. In this sense, the label is analytically
unhelpful.

On the other hand, and beyond online hyperactivity, the

label underscores the youthful exuberance and passion of
many of the right’s leading thinkers, activists, and elected
officials, as well as the younger generation’s disaffection
with—and perhaps even outright disdain for—the state of
the right-of-center politics. An older generation of
conservative leaders has demonstrably failed to “conserve”
much of anything that is good, true, and beautiful about
the American way of life. At its most serious, the New
Right aims to reverse course by changing the right’s
priorities.

October 17, 2022 On political economy, its agenda is more nationalist, more
communitarian, and more invested in helping cultivate and
advance the interests of ordinary workers, rather than
those of the financial and managerial classes. The New
Right inveighs against the “zombie Hayekianism” of the
bipartisan Washington consensus, arguing that the
neoliberal right was and is wrong to oppose protective
tariffs and the use of antitrust enforcement to check
corporate tyrannies.

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