It's time for conservatives to discuss and debate the future
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TL;DR
- The Washington Examiner's Restoring America project was launched in October 2021 to counter a perceived national crisis and leftist ideological influence.
- The project was organized around six pillars: Patriotism & Unity, Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance, Courage, Strength & Optimism, Equality, Not Elitism, Community & Family, and Fairness & Justice.
- The article argues that the conservative movement's unity, once based on opposition to progressivism, is now threatened by internal divisions among its factions (traditionalism, neoconservatism, libertarianism, religious right) in the absence of a strong common enemy.
- To address these divisions, Restoring America is launching a new debate series, "The Right Way Forward," featuring arguments on economic policy, immigration, foreign policy, and culture.
- The project aims to foster good-faith argument and intellectual dynamism within the conservative movement, drawing parallels to the "fusionism" that united factions in the past.
- The initiative will also feature an in-person debate program and emphasizes the necessity of "gatekeeping" (curation) to maintain the movement's coherence against extremism and surrender to leftist premises.