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Laurent Wauquiez Kyriakos Mitsotakis

French Center-Right Needs More Than New Leader

It needs a better strategy.

Nick OttensJune 3, 2019December 1, 2021
Mark Rutte

Far Right Fills Gaps Left by Merkel and Rutte

The two center-right leaders may have moved too far to the middle.

Nick OttensMarch 24, 2019November 14, 2021
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Party Warms to Merkel’s Successor, Voters Not So Much

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has wood the Christian right, but at the expense of goodwill in the center.

Nick OttensMarch 18, 2019December 2, 2021
Sebastian Kurz Laurent Wauquiez Michel Barnier

Kurzism Doesn’t Travel Well

Conservatives in France and Spain have mimicked the Austrian’s lurch to the right without his success.

Nick OttensJanuary 6, 2019December 1, 2021
Jyrki Katainen Pablo Casado

Harder Line Neither Helps Nor Hurts Spain’s People’s Party — For Now

Pablo Casado’s lurch to the right plays well with the base, but he isn’t expanding the party’s coalition.

Nick OttensNovember 27, 2018October 13, 2021
Horst Seehofer Winfried Kretschmann

How to Interpret the Collapse of Bavaria’s Christian Democrats?

If they were wrong to mimic the far right, what does that mean for conservatives elsewhere?

Nick OttensSeptember 13, 2018November 30, 2021

So Much for the “Vanguard” of American Conservatism

Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels were once the future of the Republican Party.

Nick OttensSeptember 12, 2018November 28, 2021
Pablo Casado

Spanish Right Takes Harder Line on Catalonia, Immigration

Pablo Casado doesn’t want to give other parties an opportunity to challenge him from the right.

Nick OttensAugust 4, 2018November 29, 2021
Donald Trump Giuseppe Conte

Two-Party System Leaves Anti-Trump Republicans in the Lurch

As the Republican Party becomes statist, small-government conservatives have nowhere to go.

Nick OttensAugust 2, 2018November 27, 2021

With Casado, Spain’s People’s Party Turns Right

Pablo Casado’s victory signals a desire for a more right-wing program.

Nick OttensJuly 21, 2018November 29, 2021
Angela Merkel

Unconvinced Germans and Unconservative Republicans

Republicans in the United States have forgotten the meaning of conservatism.

Nick OttensFebruary 12, 2018November 12, 2021
Donald Trump

Party of Conspiracy Theorists

Republicans have allowed their party to be taken over by liars and extremists.

Nick OttensFebruary 2, 2018November 27, 2021
Moscow Russia

This New Cold War Is Ideological Too

Russia is borrowing Western beliefs. That only makes the ideological challenge it poses more insidious.

Nick OttensJanuary 8, 2018March 1, 2022

French Republicans Lurch Right with Wauquiez

The new Republican party leader calls for a return to the “true values of the right”.

Nick OttensDecember 10, 2017November 30, 2021
Sebastian Kurz

Other Conservatives Should Be Wary of Imitating Kurz

Most don’t have the Austrian’s luxury of being able to tack to the right without losing support in the center.

Nick OttensOctober 16, 2017December 2, 2021

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