So a couple of weeks back, I met Mr. Saurabh Sharma, founder of the institute American Moment, a creature of the post-2016 transformation of conservative politics. We had previously become acquainted in the vague way it seems all young men do who deal with opinion writing & think tanks—the conservative world is very small indeed. Having talked to him & formed an opinion, I would have liked to attend the conference he organized in D.C. last week, Up From Chaos, but I was crossing the ocean back to the Old World. Next best was watching some of the keynote speakers expressing principled, intelligent opposition to escalation in the Ukraine. Conservative foreign policy will look a lot more like this & next to nothing like the Bush years or what’s been going on since. The first step is to learn restraint, to learn that caution is often wise or at least a good preparation for serious decisions in foreign affairs. The next step would be to form new elites & new communications to persuade a majority of Americans not to follow our psychopathic elites down the path of decadence, one war after another. So much American power has been squandered—indeed any political unity in America has been destroyed by mistakes in foreign affairs which even now are being multiplied. It’s time to mount a populist attack on D.C. to restore some moderation to American foreign policy & it’s worth asking who could lead such a movement. The Up From Chaos conference offered some candidates:
First, here’s an interesting figure, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founder of the Callin audio social media app, formerly a COO of PayPal, where Messrs. Peter Thiel & Elon Musk started.
Next, a veteran of the catastrophic American wars of the 21st c., now running for office in the House of Representatives, the 3rd Congressional District in Washington State.
Finally, here’s a man you may have seen before, he’s running for the GOP nomination for the Senate race in Ohio.