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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      6. After World War II, as the coalescing right tried to work out an effective alliance, leaders like William F. Buckley faced a problem: intellectual wing of the right had a small audience, while the strongest activist energy came from anti-black racists (esp. in South).

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      7. To put it another way, post-war right was an alliance of the snobs & the slobs. The concerns of the snobs (Voegelin's critique of gnosticism, Strauss on Hobbes, Weaver on nominalism) had little traction among the slobs organizing white citizens committees.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      8. We see this in the early National Review, where Buckley tries to maintain a difficult balancing act of having enough intellectual content to be respectable (reviews by the young Joan Didion) & enough red meat (coded in language of states rights) to win the far right.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      9. Revilo Oliver, an early, prolific National Review writer, was a palindromious racist who (after breaking with Buckley) became a leading white nationalist thinker. George Lincoln Rockwell, later founder of American Nazi Party, started off selling NR subscriptions.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      10. Aside from Oliver & Rockwell, virtually all the big thinkers of the alt-right were at one time Buckley cronies or NR writers/editors: Rothbard (who helped Buckley with Up From Liberalism), Brimelow, Sobran, Buchanan, Francis. The calls are coming from inside the house.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      11. It's often said on Buckley's behalf that he purged the right of anti-semites & overt racists. That's true up to a point. But let's flip it around; what does it say about Buckley for 50 years, from Oliver to Sobran & beyond, he had to keep firing the bigots he had hired?

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      12. To paraphrase The Onion, Buckley needed to ask himself, "why do these Nazis keep working for my magazine?" https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819584210 …

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      13. The other aspect of the Buckley legend is that even though the people he purged from the right were usually anti-semites and racists, he didn't always purge them for anti-semitism or racism but for other reasons.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      14. Murray Rothbard was purged by Buckley not for consorting with David Duke & the vile stuff in the Rothbard/Rockwell newsletter but in the early 1960s for Rothbard's quite sensible opposition to Cold War militarism.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      15. Similiarly, Buckley & National Review worked hard to keep the John Birch Society (although not its leader Robert Welch) in the conservative coalition until 1965, when the JBS came out against (sensibly!) the Vietnam war.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

      16. Jospeh Sobran was doing edgelord stuff for a longtime (in 1979 in National Review he complained about textbooks devoting time to feminists & Hispanics, or "chicks and spics" as he called them). But only became a problem for NR when he opposed the first Iraq war.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

          17. I think the true history is this: there was a big purge of the proto-alt-right (the paleo cons) in 1990s spurred on by Iraq war & Wall Street immigration consensus. When politics changed (2nd Iraq war went bad, anti-immigration on right increased) alt-right resurfaced.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

          18. A bit tangentially, something needs to be written about the widespread cult of Joseph Sobran that sprang up after Buckley fired him in 1993. Sobran was seen by many as a truthtelling martyr, The alt-right was the return of the repressed, in Freud's terms.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

          19. Thinking more on it, the problem with the "alt-right infiltrated conservative movement" frame is that it elides the really sinister role of the donor class. In a lot of ways, the Mercers & the Kochs are a much bigger problem than the alt-right.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

          20. By itself, the alt-right is a minor problem: they're small in number, not very bright, and generally goofballs who, as @RosieGray shows, like to pretend to be vikings at summer camp. The real problem is the big money people who worked to mainstream the goofballs.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2019

          21. It's the Mercers and the Kochs who have made a knowing decision to elevate the alt-right, doing so on the probably correct assumption that racism will win a mass base that purely libertarian economic policy never will.

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