# Nationalist-Conservative Right This note outlines the landscape of the **Nationalist-Conservative Right** as it manifests in different national contexts. It includes elected officials, legal professionals, think tanks, religious networks, advocacy groups, and cultural entrepreneurs. --- ## Entries **10/04/2025**: The _[[Tech Right]]_ is an emerging strand within the nationalist-conservative ecosystem in the US that combines cultural reaction with a managerial, disruption-oriented mindset. Drawing from startup culture and Silicon Valley-style rhetoric, its advocates frame public administration as bloated, inefficient, and in need of radical overhaul. While socially conservative and nationalist in outlook, this current tends to present itself as modern, data-driven, and impatient with traditional bureaucracy. **Think tanks in Brazil**: - The [Instituto Monte Castelo](https://montecastelo.org/) operates as a policy-oriented organization aligned with fiscal conservatism and traditional values, often producing legislative proposals and position papers. - The [Instituto General Villas Bôas](https://igvb.org), formed around the symbolic capital of military figures, serves as a platform for the defense of sovereignty, national identity, and opposition to “globalism.” - The [Instituto Brasileiro de Direito e Religião](https://www.ibdr.org.br/) (IBDR) focuses on legal advocacy and judicial lobbying, seeking to embed Christian values in constitutional interpretation and public policy. It also promotes figures such as [Guilherme Schelb](https://lp.guilhermeschelb.com.br/) (a federal prosecutor and near-appointee for Minister of Education under Bolsonaro) who has advocated for conservative judicial engagement in education and public security. - The [Instituto Schaeffer de Teologia e Cultura](https://www.youtube.com/c/InstitutoSchaefferdeTeologiaeCultura) hosts seminars, publishes materials, and supports pastors committed to resisting what they frame as “cultural Marxism.” - ANED ([Associação Nacional de Educação Domiciliar](https://aned.digital/)) works to expand homeschooling legislation as both a moral imperative and a parental right. - The [Instituto Plínio Corrêa de Oliveira](https://ipco.org.br/), rooted in traditionalist Catholic thought, promotes moral and anti-socialist activism, drawing on the legacy of its founder to mobilize against progressive social change in both civil society and legal arenas. **Think Tanks in the U.S.** - The [Heritage Foundation](https://www.heritage.org/) is a pillar of conservative policy work in the US, producing model legislation, staffing Republican administrations, and exporting a blueprint right-wing nationalism and cultural pushback. - The [Center for Renewing America](https://americarenewing.com/) (founded by [[Russ Vought]], a former Trump OMB director) focuses on dismantling progressive influence in education, immigration, and federal bureaucracy, often invoking Christian-nationalist frames. - The [Claremont Institute](https://www.claremont.org/), originally a niche academic hub devoted to Straussian political theory, gained prominence during the Trump era by promoting a militant form of American nationalism and executive power. - The [America First Policy Institute](https://americafirstpolicy.com/) (AFPI), created by former Trump officials, operates as a government-in-waiting: proposing policy blueprints, cultivating candidates, and advancing “America First” principles across economic, cultural, and foreign affairs. One of its key figures, [[James Sherk]], leads efforts on civil service reform, advocating for a dramatic restructuring of the federal workforce to increase political control and reduce bureaucratic independence. - [[American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)]] - [[State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF)]] - [[Bradley Foundation]] **Think tanks in Europe** - The [Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung](https://erasmus-stiftung.de/), affiliated with the German party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), promotes national conservatism and critiques of liberal democracy. - The [Századvég Foundation](https://szazadveg.hu/) offer policy support to Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party in Hungary, blending illiberal democracy with cultural nationalism.