natcon

plural natcons

1. Alternative letter-case form of NatCon (“national conservative”)

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   If the old red lines no longer obtain, what new lines would the natcons respect, if any? Defining a workable alternative to liberalism is a difficult challenge, one the natcons did not even attempt to meet with anything deeper than sloganeering—specifically, "You can just do things," a mantra I heard incessantly at the conference. The you in this formulation is the natcons themselves, once they control the state.

   2025 September 9, Jonathan Chait, “The Intellectual Vacuity of the National Conservatives”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025

plural NatCons · alternative natcon

1. A national conservative.

   Fifteen percent of the American population is foreign born, and in general, NatCons think that is the maximum that is possible for the country to take before it literally starts falling apart.

   2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, quoting Yoram Hazony, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2025

alternative natcon

1. governmentThe National Conservatism Conference.

   To an extent, that is the point of NatCon, as an almost philosophical talking shop, not a policy forum.

   2023 May 17, Peter Walker, “Ten things we learned from the UK NatCon conference”, in The Guardian, →ISSN