Josh Hammer: The 2024 Test for the New American Right

A favorite game among the chattering class is to guess the identity and the name of Trump’s first opponent for the Republican nomination. Nikki Haley was the answer to that question this week. Former governor of South Carolina and U.S. diplomat to the United Nations will announce her candidacy for 2024 GOP presidential nomination. She will do so in Charleston, South Carolina on February 15. (N.B. (N.B.

Haley’s announcement is likely to open the floodgates for other Trump challengers. As Haley has barely attempted to limit her 2024 presidential ambitions of late, we can expect announcements soon from other less-thinly-veiled aspirants such as Mike Pence, ex-Vice President, Secretary of State, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and possibly former Maryland Governor. Larry Hogan. Many other candidates will also be entering the fray later this spring or early in the summer: Florida Governor is one of them. Ron DeSantis, possibly Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, 2016 GOP presidential primary runner-up Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is also teasing a possible presidential run, despite having somewhat dubious credentials.

All of this will be resolved by the due date — June or July at the latest. As we get closer to that time, the main question facing the Right and the Republican Party, which is the natural partisan vehicle for the Right, is whether or not it will seize upon Trump’s phenomenon and make a move ForwardOr, you can move instead Backward To the status quo ante of the GOP pre-2016 Or, to put it another way: “Trumpism” It was a brief flash in the pan, centered around a larger-than-life celebrity and a star with universal celebrity status. Or was it a significant wake-up call to the GOP to abandon its old bromides, and refocus on issues pertaining to trade, immigration and foreign policy (especially).

There are reasons to be optimistic that this formulation is correct.

DeSantis is consistently the most popular non-Trump candidate in the 2024 election polls. DeSantis is also a symbol of more populist and nationalist-infused ethos. “New Right” He is a better representative of the movement than any current elected official in America. He is a fierce culture warrior who plunges headfirst into the battle against wokenism. With a clear appreciation for the governing imperatives to wield political power in support of good order and to recapture institutions that were previously lost to wake-ism. His fight against The Walt Disney Company last year was well-publicized. “New Right” Playbook: You can use your political power to punish an insidiously gender-based corporation and protect the rights of parents and children’s innocence.

DeSantis also won a significant scalp from the College Board in recent years when it revised its AP African American Studies curriculum following objections by the Florida governor to its pervasive leftist ideology. DeSantis’ recent actions with the New College of Florida’s trustees perfectly demonstrate how prudentially one can use power to recapture and redirect woke-addled organizations. Even on his signature issue, COVID-19, DeSantis did not reflexively defer to private-sector actors, as many libertarians or right-liberals might have; rather, he properly wielded power to preclude private-sector vaccine mandates, demonstrating a recognition of the manner in which professional-managerial class elites weaponized such mandates against dissenting “deplorables.”

Trump, and his loudest supporters on social media, recently referred to DeSantis, as a clone, of former House Speaker Paul Ryan, (R-WI), which perfectly represents the older chamber-friendly GOP. It is ridiculous. Ryan, now a distinguished visiting Fellow at the neoliberal American Enterprise Institute (Neoliberal American Enterprise Institute), would oppose most or all of DeSantis’ actions.

However, there are many potential 2024 candidates that embody the failures in the pre-2016 GOP status Quo ante.

For example, Pompeo’s foreign policy-focused views on Ukraine have sounded much like Bush-era Donald Rumsfeld recently when he weighed in on the Russo/Ukrainian War, delineating America’s purported national interests at a cartoonishly high abstraction level and calling for more taxpayer-funded weapons shipping. Haley gives off the strong impression she is a “market can do no wrong”-style laissez faire fundamentalist, denigrating “hyphenated capitalism” — like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL’s) proposal “common good capitalism” That was hilarious tweeting in March 2020 as COVID-19 lockdowns were near. “as we are dealing with changes in our economy, tax cuts are always a good idea.” Both Hogan and Suarez are a perfect example of the infamous advice that Republican National Committee provided in its post-2012 presidential campaign. “autopsy”To soften immigration, you should avoid the icky. “culture war” For suburbia, economic issues are more appealing than issues. Trump’s victory four years later proved that such thinking is a mistake.

If most of these 2024 candidates do indeed take the plunge, Republican primary voters will have to make a huge decision. Let’s pray they choose to move forward instead of backward.

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