“What I Saw And Heard In Washington”

Groyperism’s Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real

In this blog post, Rod Dreher details his recent trip to Washington, where he met with VP J.D. Vance and Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, but his main focus is on the alarming spread of “Groyperism” and overt antisemitism among young Generation Z conservatives. Dreher reports from his conversations that this radicalism is not a fringe movement but a significant trend fueled by the generation’s economic despair, nihilistic rage against all institutions, and a feeling of being culturally dispossessed and lied to. He warns that these young conservatives are increasingly drawn to tearing down the system rather than reforming it, show a frightening openness to authoritarianism, and that this deep-seated antisemitism poses a “spiritually poisonous” and politically destructive threat to the future of conservatism.