2. There are lot of incidental problems with the piece: I don't think @CoreyRobin or @NancyMacLean5 would self-identify as liberals, as against radicals or leftists, he understates power of Birch Society in 1960s, & misunderstands Buckley's feud with Birchers.
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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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white conservatives especially southerners think of themselves as basically a minority ethnic group within the country as a whole so they think it's not fair to stereotype their bad qualities
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Great essay.
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1) In my book Conservatism is Un-American I tackle this in my chapter on the far right's bizarre Nazi analogies. Since Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism is my central example, I looked at the longtime authoritarian racism rife on the National Review's staff.
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2) "Jonah Goldberg wrote, 'Liberalism, unlike conservatism, is operationally uninterested in its own intellectual history.' And yet he is operationally uninterested in the intellectual history of his *own magazine.* In this light, his prickliness is pretty predictable."
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