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What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?

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A conversation with Curt Mills, Executive Director of The American Conservative

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Our guest is Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, and the subject of a recent profile in Jewish Currents. Curt is one of most influential thinkers in defining a conservative foreign policy that is skeptical of both war and unconditional support for Israel. We talked about why he supported Donald Trump in 2024, and what he thinks of Trump now, about the role of racism in conservative opposition to immigration, and about what J.D. Vance believes. We disagreed on a lot, but I found the conversation valuable.

Topics include:

  • Why he supported Trump in the past and why he no longer does

  • What explains the right’s opposition to mass immigration

  • Was Pat Buchanan an anti-semite?

  • Would a Harris administration have been better than Trump on Israel-Palestine?

  • Why Mills might support certain Democrats over Marco Rubio in 2028

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