Social critic Rod Dreher lives in Budapest, Hungary, but was in Washington last week for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s meeting with President Trump. Orban, Dreher, and others later met with Vice President Vance in his study for a 90-minute conversation that ranged from geopolitics to the future of Christianity in Europe.

On his Substack blog (“Rod Dreher’s Diary”), Dreher relates how he used a moment alone with the vice president to press home to him the dangers posed by “America First” social media commentator Nick Fuentes and the “Groyper” movement associated with him.

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Now it’s not exactly news to say that a civil war is being fought daily within the ranks of American conservatives. Many pundits have raised the alarm that the Republican Party is vulnerable to being co-opted by a radical ideological outlook associated with Generation Z upcomers, or Zoomers.

Dreher says he talked with many of these Zoomers, and the added value of his essay is his insights into these questions: Who are these people, and what do they want?

Who they are is “Groypers,” a subset of the Zoomers that is both politically active and penurious. Groyperism is a nativist, and some would say, a white-supremacist,........

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