“We are the zeitgeist now.”

Caroline Downey, 27, teetered atop a chair in silver heels, microphone in hand, the teardrop-shaped beads of her pink minidress reflecting light. Nearly 200 fellow 20-somethings stared back at her, nodding in agreement. It was a Thursday night at Butterworth’s, a bistro near the Capitol that’s become a sort of MAGA clubhouse in Trump’s second term. The second-floor bar was festooned with feminine flourishes — mini disco balls scattered on the bar, blush-colored balloons scattered on the floor, hot-pink “Make America Hot Again” ball caps scattered on tabletops.

The name of the event put things in the present tense: “America Is Hot Again.” The host was the Conservateur, an online lifestyle publication. Think Vogue meets National Review. (Recent headlines: “The Media’s Latest Buzzword: Misogyny”; “‘Trad Life’ Is a Spectrum, Not a Straitjacket”; “Trump & Elon — The Power Duo Saving America.”) Downey, a staff writer for National Review Online who also serves as the Conservateur’s editor in chief, stood under the soft glow of pendant lights and talked about an “objectively beautiful lifestyle” and an “objectively superior worldview” that had been under-recognized and underappreciated by mainstream fashion magazines.

“They’re glamorizing bad ideas,” she said of the mainstream outlets. “They’re glamorizing evil.”