Conservative NYT Columnist David Brooks Calls for 'National Civic Uprising' to Defeat Trumpism

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21. Trump's national conservatism is not the traditional American conservatism of Brooks, William Buckley and the past GOP

Following the Project 2025 roadmap and Trump's own authoritarian streak is leading the US to national conservatism with authoritarian conservatism on the roadmap.

"National conservatism is a nationalist variant of conservatism that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity, communitarianism and the public role of religion. It shares aspects of traditionalist conservatism and social conservatism, while departing from economic liberalism and libertarianism, as well as taking a more pragmatic approach to regulatory economics and protectionism. It opposes the basic precepts of enlightenment liberalism such as individualism and the universality of human rights, and in America and Europe is majoritarian populist.[ National conservatives usually combine conservatism with nationalist stances, emphasizing cultural conservatism, family values and opposition to illegal immigration or opposition to immigration per se. National conservative parties often have roots in environments with a rural, traditionalist or peripheral basis, contrasting with the more urban support base of liberal conservative parties."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_conservatism

There are many elements of Authoritarian conservatism in Trump's behavior as well.
"Authoritarian conservatism refers to autocratic regimes that portray authority as absolute and unquestionable. Authoritarian conservative movements show strong devotion towards religion, tradition, and culture while also expressing fervent nationalism akin to other far-right nationalist movements."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_conservatism

Interesting contrast with fascism which actually opposes authoritarian conservatism from Edmund Fawcett:
"Fascism, to schematize, is a form of totalitarianism. It imposes control on every aspect of the state, society, economy, and cultural life. It works through a single party with an all-embracing ideology commonly under a charismatic leader claiming to speak for the people. Its enemies are pluralism and diversity. Fascism stifles opposition by violence and fear and stabilizes itself by mobilizing popular engagement. Authoritarianism, by contrast, allows independent economic and social bodies, forms of limited representation, and a degree of freedom of religion. Its enemy is democratic participation. It also stifles opposition by violence and fear but stabilizes itself by relying on passive acquiescence in a trade-off of social quiet for loss of political role. The fascist is a nonconservative who takes anti-liberalism to extremes. The right-wing authoritarian is a conservative who takes fear of democracy to extremes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_conservatism

Trump's conservatism has never before achieved major power in the USA and stands against the libertarian strains of conservatism-- with its overarching emphasis on freedom that was previously the focus of the GOP. Much of what is happening is the handiwork of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. The MAGA faithful have little understanding that their conservative values have been hijacked-- possibly because the unifying aspect of conservatism is deep respect for traditional authority.