The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a major viability test for the intellectual and political movement called the “New Right.”

To be clear, this is not the New Right of the 20th century that included voices such as writer William F. Buckley Jr. and culminated in the election of former President Ronald Reagan in 1980. While that coalition championed free markets, limited government, and relatively hawkish foreign policy, the modern New Right is skeptical of capitalism, more willing to use the power of the state, and relatively dovish.