As more experienced members of the conservative movement debate where it is headed, we can get some sense of its direction from its younger adherents. While some young conservatives have embraced populism and nationalism, there are those who would rather hold fast to the beliefs of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. Many of the latter attended the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference, whose name has become ironic in that there is little “national conservatism” to be found there.
Though many NCSC attendees sympathized with the grievances of those who feel dispossessed or believe that conservatism has been ineffective in recent years, they are put off by the big-government tendencies of the new movement that has arisen on the right, as several told National Review.
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