1. An erstwhile contrarian radical who hates PC SJW hipsters decides to defend a right-wing buffoon. But he knows there is no positive case to be made so he confines himself to attacking critics of the buffoon. I"m talking of course of Wyndham Lewis' anti-anti-Hitler stance.
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10. Lewis, to be clear, was a skilled polemicist & was right on a few individual points (Treaty of Versailles & war debts were bad). But he was overwhelmingly wrong in the larger agenda (which was to make the most plausible case for not opposing Hitler).
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In today’s language maybe even a “proud deplorable”.
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So, like a Michael Tracey, but with actual writing skills?
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