If one has some familiarity with Russell Vought’s ‘radical constitutionalism’ or (which does not amount to the same thing) ‘national conservatism’ (of which Hazony is the pre-eminent thinker), one recognizes that Hamilton’s views are in the ascendancy.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com
This is the second post in a series of posts on Russell Vought’s programmatic (2022) essay “Renewing American Purpose: Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment,” The American Mind. (The first was here yesterday.) Yesterday, I focused on Vought’s diagnosis of the failures of Trump 1, and I explored some of the intellectual roots of the framework he proposes to take up in — as one may surmise from what is unfolding already — in Trump 2.| digressionsimpressions.substack.com