How the right’s radical thinkers are coping with the midterms

In the heady days before the 2022 midterms, conservatives looked out at America and saw a country on the verge of inflicting a major blow in the culture war: rewarding Republicans despite the end of Roe and punishing Democrats for embracing allegedly radical positions on race and gender. The New Right, a loose grouping of conservative thinkers who advocate aggressively wielding state power to promote a more conservative culture, smelled blood in the water.

“Political horse-race types are predicting a GOP blowout in today’s midterm elections, and if it comes to pass,...