The Dispatch
After leaving the Weekly Standard, Hayes reached out to Jonah Goldberg who worked for National Review at the time and was a part of the Never Trump Movement and told him that either in 2021 or in 2025 Donald Trump would no longer be President and as such American conservatism needed to mean something different from support for Trump for it to mean anything. Goldberg agreed with Hayes so they created a new website called The Dispatch and said it was for “Post-Trump Conservatism”.