“As the risk of all-out regional war looms in the Middle East, a less noticed move away from decades of pro-Israel consensus is beginning on parts of the Right.
While U.S. military and diplomatic support for Israel remains ironclad in the conservative mainstream, dissent is brewing around the edges — and you can spot it if you know where to look.
By tracking these emerging “dissident Right” movements, progressives can understand the ways in which our opponents, too, are attempting to tap into real and growing discontent with the foreign policy status quo — for the purpose of channeling it away from a truly liberatory direction, and down the dead-end road of America First nationalism.
I attended the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference earlier this summer, an annual gathering of academics, writers and think-tankers on the cutting edge of the Trumpian Right. In the five years since NatCon’s debut, it’s quickly been recognized as a bellwether of a new right-wing vanguard, lending intellectual gravitas and organizational heft to nationalist movements in the United States and worldwide…”
Ben Lorber 
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