The fine publication First Things can do better. It has produced a manifesto of sorts for a new conservatism, supposedly making a major break from “the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016” without necessarily embracing Trumpism per se.

Entitled “Against the Dead Consensus” and signed by 14 usually insightful thinkers on the Right, it makes a big to-do about fighting “those who would resurrect warmed-over Reaganism and foreclose honest debate.”