Mon Dec 5, 2022 – 5:42 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The latest president of the conservative Heritage Foundation recently offered a stinging rebuke of comments about the state of the conservative movement by two prominent voices in its establishment faction, highlighting ongoing tensions among so-called populists, elites, and more.
Kevin Roberts, who became Heritage’s seventh president in late 2021, was reacting to a recap of remarks delivered by Republican strategist Karl Rove and longtime columnist George Will at the LBJ Presidential Library on “The Future of Conservatism.”
Rove lamented the rising influence of a strain of populism “based on a belief that the whole system is rigged, that the elites have rigged the entire system against ordinary Americans,” past failures to enact an immigration “compromise” under which millions of illegal aliens would have been granted amnesty, feared that a hardline stance on abortion would “tear the Republican Party apart,” and warned that if Russia prevails in taking over Ukraine it will be an “existential threat” to American security.
Will, who despite his onetime reputation as a conservative thinker advocated voting for Democrats in 2018 and 2020, described populism as antithetical to conservatism, concurred about the need
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