When the Israeli political philosopher Yoram Hazony appeared on The Ezra Klein Show in August, he worked hard to distance himself and his National Conservatism Conferences from the din of racist and antisemitic voices on parts of the American right.
"MAGA is a very broad alliance. I would say, roughly, it's the alliance of different groups that came together to make it possible for [President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance] to win. But those are not all national or nationalist conservatives," he insisted. As for his movement, "from the very beginning, we distinguished ourselves in two directions—from the libertarians…who were basically to our left, and from racialist and anti-democratic movements that are to our right."
The implication was that people like the Holocaust-denying Gen Z influencer Nick Fuentes and his army of online followers ("Groypers") were not welcome in the natcon tent. "I think that the border is clear," Hazony said. "Blood and soil is literally a Nazi term….We are not interested in a nationalism of blood."
