5 bizarre statements from last week’s National Conservatism Conference
National Conservatism held the National Conservatism Conference (Nat Con) in Washington D.C. last week, and it was marked by a slew of bizarre and inflammatory statements.
National Conservatism held the National Conservatism Conference (Nat Con) in Washington D.C. last week, and it was marked by a slew of bizarre and inflammatory statements.
Eric Schmitt’s colonizer rant
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) received a standing ovation at Nat Con for proclaiming that the United States is the property of a distinct ethnic people. Schmitt argued that America belongs to the descendants of English, Scotch-Irish and continental Europeans
“They believe they can build a new America with new myths of a new people,” Schmitt said. “But America doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It’s a way of life that is ours and only ours. If we disappear, then America too will cease to exist.”
Our ancestors would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a “proposition.”
They believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants.
America belongs to us, and only us.
If we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist. pic.twitter.com/MBqoP2xNZN
— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) September 2, 2025
Yoram Hazony says “The Left” and “The Right” hate Jewish people
Israeli-American philosopher Yoram Hazony, author of a book called “The Virtue of Nationalism,” claims that liberals are in a “rabbit hole” of hating Jewish people. He also downplayed the right’s antisemitism, ignoring Nazism.
“The left is long gone into a rabbit hole of hating Jews,” Hazony said. “I didn’t think it would happen on the right, I was mistaken.”
“I’ve been pretty amazed by the depth of the slander of Jews as a people that’s been online in the last year and a half. The Left is already long gone into a rabbit hole of hating Jews. I didn’t think it would happen on the Right. I was mistaken.”
–@yhazony at NatCon 5 pic.twitter.com/js1u1JNW2b
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) September 2, 2025
Political commentator Tom Klingenstein’s warmongering, anti-history rhetoric
During a speech on Tuesday, political commentator Tom Klingenstein suggested that a war with China is on the horizon, but that American children will not be willing to fight in it because of being taught the history of slavery.
“How can we possibly expect our children to die for the ‘evil country’ that the 1619 Project describes?”
“One day we shall have to ask our young men to die for their country. Perhaps to fight China. We shall ask them to follow their forebears who died under a hail of bullets while crossing exposed beaches at Normandy. How can we possibly expect our children to die for the ‘evil… pic.twitter.com/JoVz4maTTx
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) September 2, 2025
William Wolfe wants to put Protestant commentators in camps
William Wolfe, the founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, argued that liberal-Protestant political commentators have been taught the wrong things. He then advocated for rounding them up in camps and “reeducating them.”
“I would say we need to educate them, but honestly, we need to reeducate them,” Wolfe said. “I personally wouldn’t be opposed to rounding up a bunch of Protestant pastors and putting them in camps and just letting Tyman preach at them for like a six-week course and then releasing them back into the wild.”
Wolfe then argued to invest in the creation of a new class of “Protestant elites” to be civic leaders.
Harmeet Dhillon gets applause for getting 200 civil rights lawyers to resign
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon garnered applause during her Nat Con speech. Dhillon revealed that when lawyers in her division asked what their priorities would be, she copy and pasted President Trump’s relevant executive orders and said, “These are our priorities.”
Dhillon expressed pride when she indicated that over 200 civil rights lawyers tendered their resignations.
I copied and pasted the President’s Executive Orders that are relevant to those DOJ sections, and I told them: “These are our priorities.”
This simple step caused over 200 lawyers in the Civil Rights division to tender their resignations. I was a little taken aback. I thought… pic.twitter.com/62psDHwqV3
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) September 3, 2025
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