I did not attend this week’s inaugural National Conservative Conference in Washington, D.C., where a number of leading center-right intellectuals gathered to map out a nationalist agenda for the Right, much of it challenging pre-Trump Republican orthodoxy on everything from trade to foreign policy.

Despite the appearance of billionaire Peter Thiel, the conference did not appear to embrace libertarians.

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