Washington, D.C., is nervous. The unaccountable bureaucracy and bloated government that find a home there, and the public and private corruption that go along with them, face serious scrutiny and genuine antagonism for the first time in a while. There is immense potential for the returning of power unjustly centralized inside the Beltway and within the bowels of unelected administration back to the people and their representatives.
It is a moment made for, and in certain ways made possible by, freedom conservatism. This political tendency roots itself in the American Founding and has manifested, among other places, in the principles of National Review, the political career of Ronald Reagan, and the successes of Republicans in the Tea Party era and during Donald Trump’s first term.
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