1. This @RuleandRuin article arguing that liberal historians have done a poor job of covering conservatism is getting a lot of attention but I think very weak.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/09/liberals-dont-know-much-about-conservative-history-219742 …
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10. A lot of conservative histories of conservatism weren't really histories at all but Tributes to The Wise Men of Olde Who Thought Right. Which meant, necessarily, ignoring tensions, contradictions, evolution. Not to mention social history.
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11. So I was really grateful when liberals and leftists like
@CoreyRobin,@rickperlstein@HC_Richardson@NancyMacLean5 etc. started writing on conservatism. Whatever disagreements I have with their work (and they disagree with each other) at least it's at least not a whitewash.Show this thread -
12. Here are my deeper reflections on why the history of conservatism is too important to be left to conservatives.https://newrepublic.com/article/151127/conservatives-know-much-conservative-history …
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13. I have something more to say about that
@RuleandRuin piece, although I realize I'm risking beating a dead horse. I think the larger political project of the piece is to recuperate a good, moderate GOP that no longer exists.Show this thread -
14. You see this a lot, not just among conservatives but also centrists & liberals (including Obama & Hillary Clinton): a positing of 2 GOPs: a good, moderate, intellectual GOP just interested in low taxes & military spending versus a bad racist Trumpian GOP
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@RuleandRuin is of course the world's authority on moderate Republicans (his book is very good! Should be widely read!). But I wonder if he doesn't understate how powerful Trumpian currents were in GOP since at least the 1930s.Show this thread
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That's basic Darwinism, the "liberal"
#progressive state religion according to Pope Dawkins The Addled.
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Kendall had a relationship with Leo Strauss and is a respected figure in Straussian circles. West Coast Straussian infatuation with Trumpism did not appear out of nowhere.
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And Gerson charges liberalism with "the soft bigotry of low expectations". JFC.
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I attended lectures by Kendall at Georgetown U. A knowledgeable guy & good writer - but he was as far to the Right as you could go (more interesting than gasbag Russell Kirk).
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