European Conservatives Are Not the Enemy

I’ve been waiting for many years to say these words: I’m not nativist enough for Jonah Goldberg.

Goldberg’s latest dispatch for the Dispatch is titled “Slouching Towards the Old World.” It was occasioned, he says, by “the reaction to the election of Giorgia Meloni.” He’s not on the same wavelength as the people on MSNBC, but he’s disquieted that American conservatives have made a 2019 speech of Meloni’s go viral. “The cheering is a sharp break with conservatism as we knew it,” he writes. He means American conservatism.

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I’ve been waiting for many years to say these words: I’m not nativist enough for Jonah Goldberg.

Goldberg’s latest dispatch for the Dispatch is titled “Slouching Towards the Old World.” It was occasioned, he says, by “the reaction to the election of Giorgia Meloni.” He’s not on the same wavelength as the people on MSNBC, but he’s disquieted that American conservatives have made a 2019 speech of Meloni’s go viral. “The cheering is a sharp break with conservatism as we knew it,” he writes. He means American conservatism.