Commentary Ethnogenesis is the process by which numerous individuals who share an ethnic trait come to understand themselves as a distinct group, people whose common attributes mark them as having a separate standing and experience. The term is now commonly applied to any social group with a marked commonality, not just an ethnic one. It’s a process we conservatives at the present time are called to undergo. We must face the fact that the country we inhabit, the institutions that steer and govern our society, the schools that educate our children, and many of the laws and regulations we must follow bluntly oppose what we believe and who we are. By “conservatives” I mean social and religious conservatives, people who subscribe to traditional, conservative conceptions of God, family, and nation. Not libertarian conservatives; not free market fundamentalists. The conservatives identified here accept some version of Original Sin, which means they know …