<p>The ushering in of the Trump presidency has caused many conservatives to pause and soberly reflect upon both the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-path-forward-conservative-movement-josh-hammer">future of American conservatism</a> and <a href="https://americanmind.org/post/our-constitutional-order-prioritizes-justice-not-procedure/">what it even means</a> to be a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-national-conservatism-conference-josh-hammer">conservative</a>, in the first instance. The intramural conservative dialogue reached a crescendo earlier this year when New York Post Op-Ed Editor Sohrab Ahmari declared his opposition to pluralistic/values-neutral &#8220;<a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/05/against-david-french-ism">David French-ism</a>&#8221; and his preference, instead, to &#8220;fight the culture war with the aim of defeating the enemy and enjoying the spoils in the form of a public square re-ordered to the common good and ultimately the Highest Good.&#8221;</p>
<p>The recent hullabaloo on the Right over pornography regulation/banning, a dialogue that owes its elevation in no small part to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-at-first-things-porn-is-not-a-blessing-of-liberty">those of us</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-the-porn-debate-isnt-really-about-porn">here</a> at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-every-child-exposed-to-internet-pornography-is-an-abuse-victim-there-should-be-laws-protecting-them">The Daily Wire</a>, is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-every-child-exposed-to-internet-pornography-is-an-abuse-victim-there-should-be-laws-protecting-them">proxy fight</a> that represents an apotheosis of the <a href="https://constudies.nd.edu/news-and-events/events/2019/09/13/trumpism-what-is-conservatism-in-the-age-of-trump/">ongoing</a> Ahmari/French dialectic. And that intellectual divide, which is multifaceted but might be simplified as pitting the centrality of classical liberal procedural norms (French) versus the centrality of a morally assertive vision of justice and the common good (Ahmari), is of course itself a <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/david-french-sohrab-ahmari-and-the-battle-for-the-future-of-conservatism">proxy fight</a> for the future of conservatism.</p>

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