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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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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20. By itself, the alt-right is a minor problem: they're small in number, not very bright, and generally goofballs who, as
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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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spot on Jeet
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You've read Gottfried and Spencer's book about this, presumably.
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Which book(s) is that?
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Great thread, and the article on McHugh was, indeed, fantastic.
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Important takeaway: Conservatives will NEVER be anti-racist enough to placate right-thinking bien-pensant salonfähig handshakeworthy establishment liberal opinion, and it is foolish and self-defeating of them to try to do so.
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