Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“Over the course of the past year, the ‘Heritage American’ movement — something I’d never come across before — moved out of the fringe and into the MAGA core, driving the rhetoric of Trump administration agencies. The ‘coming-out moment’ for Heritage Americanism may well have been JD Vance’s speech at the Claremont Institute in July 2025, in which he said: ‘America is not just an idea. We’re a particular place with a particular people and a particular set of beliefs and way of life.’ … Which ‘particular people?’ The answer may be supplied by the ‘Heritage American’ movement that centers itself on American Reformer Magazine and a group of intellectuals including C. Jay Engel, Auron MacIntyre, and Ben Crenshaw, who write lucidly, if not always with perfect logical consistency, about what they have in mind.” (01/16/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/its-not-my-heritage-that-makes-me