National conservatism

National conservatism is a variant of conservatism that prioritises the defense of national and cultural identity, often based on a theory of the family as a model for the state. It is oriented towards upholding national sovereignty, which includes opposing illegal immigration or immigration per se and having a strong military. National conservatism departs from economic liberalism and libertarianism and takes a more pragmatic approach to regulatory economics, national capitalism, and protectionism. National conservatism opposes the basic precepts of enlightenment liberalism such as individualism and the universality of human rights, and in America and Europe, is majoritarian populist. National-conservative parties often have roots in rural environments, contrasting with the more urban support base of liberal-conservative parties. In Europe, some notable national conservatives parties include the Brothers of Italy, Fidesz, the Swedish Democrats and Reform UK. National conservatives usually embrace some form of Euroscepticism. In post-communist central and eastern Europe specifically, most conservative parties since 1989 have followed a national conservative ideology. Viktor Orbán in Hungary explicitly had his government fund national conservative institutions across Europe and the United States, such as the Danube Institute, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, The European Conservative magazine, and the National Conservatism Conference. In the United States, Trumpism can be considered a variety of national conservatism, which also gives its name to the National Conservatism Conference, organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation.