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Kresta in the Afternoon – August 31, 2022 – Hour 2

What is the state of American Conservatism? Where is it going? Matthew Continetti, author of The Right: The 100-Year Battle for American Conservatism, joins us.


Where is American Conservatism Going?

What is American political conservatism? Is it the movement defined by William F Buckley and Ronald Reagan? The Tea Party movement that arose in the mid-2000s? That which is identified by allegiance to Donald Trump? All of the above? Something else? We’ll talk it over with Matthew Continetti.

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Matthew Continetti is the author of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. He’s a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where his work is focused on American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement in the 20th century. He was the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon and is also a contributing editor for National Review. Follow him on Twitter @continetti
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