8. Horton was an inspiration for the ranchers in Southwest who fought the “Sagebrush Wars” of 1980s over federal land. Mullins' theories of Federal Reserve (sparked by Pound) are a staple of conspiracy theorists.
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9. Here is Mullins on the Alex Jones show, where he talks about influence Pound on his politics: "I got my education in a nuthouse."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGZoPJ3k_4 …
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10. But it wasn't just the violent far right that took inspiration from Pound, but also also the more respectable emerging conservative movement found in National Review and Regnery Books, both of which published Pound.
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11. What Pound's conservative admirers (led preeminently by the great literary critic Hugh Kenner, a National Review editor in 1960s) appreciated in Pound was his creation of a usable non-liberal past: Kung, Jefferson, Adams, etc.
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12. Pound's alliance Kaspers was a crude, vicious version of a trend that had more rarefied intellectual counterparts in exultation of Southern culture found in National Review, Modern Age etc. (Weaver, Southern Agarians, even The New Criticism).
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13. You go hunting where the ducks are. If you're anti-liberal in the 1940s/1950s, the ducks are white Southerners. Hence the Southern Strategy, with its intellectual counterpart in various southern intellectual movements (both conservative & far right)
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14. Kenner, along with his then mentor Marshall McLuhan, met Pound at St. Elizabeths in 1948. Academically, Kenner & McLuhan were allied with the New Critics, who used formalism in the service of conservative & often pro-traditional South politics
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15. Unlike the New Critics, though, Kenner didn't think a poet's social vision was irrelevant. However, he did believe that it could be separated from the particular politics the poet had. In other words, Pound's condemnation of usury doesn't have to be fascist.
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16. In an important 1967 essay, later reprinted & praised by William F. Buckley, Kenner argues that the politics of Pound & the other fascist modernists could be bracketed off from their politics.pic.twitter.com/JouHntdjSI
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No, Kenner broke with formalism & was interested in social vision as part of poetics.
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