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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      1. A few thoughts on the historian John Lukacs (1924-2019), whose death at age 95 has just been announced. Here a something he wrote in 1975 for @commonwealmag predicting that a post-Soviet Russia would be dominated by a criminal underworld.pic.twitter.com/3qVuk7MzTy

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      2. Lukacs was born in Hungary in 1924 to a mixed-faith family (Jewish & Catholic). He identified as Catholic but his Jewish heritage (shaped by grandparents he was close to) was important for making him wary of nationalism & faux-populism

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      3. Lukacs was a conservative but of a type that is virtually extinct in America (& indeed in much of the world): a traditionalist wary of mass politics based on nationalism & scapegoating of minorities. He was for that reason properly scornful of American conservative movement.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      4. Lukacs' scorn for right-wing populism surfaced in the early 1950s. As a refugee from Hungary he was anti-communist, but still quick to detect & denounce the dangers of demagogues like Joseph McCarthy, who he feared would destablize society & incite war.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      5. I'm emphasizing Lukacs's anti-populist conservatism because its proved prophetic, especially in the Trump era. He long feared that populist-nationalist-authoritarian demagoguery was the wave of the future.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel Larison

      6. A good quote:https://twitter.com/DanielLarison/status/1125423722087821312 …

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      Daniel Larison @DanielLarison
      Replying to @HeerJeet
      He once dismissed movement conservatives' worldview as "narrowly nationalist and broadly Californian," and then added that it was "narrow enough to be ignorant, broad enough to be flat." I love that line
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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      7. Here's a Boston Globe article I wrote about how Lukacs' anti-populist conservatism put him in tension with George Bush's Republican politics: http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/06/the_anti_populist?pg=full …

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      8. Lukacs in 1970: "Bismarck was supposed to have said that the most important fact of the twentieth century would be that Americans speak English; it is not impossible that the most important condition of the next hundred years might be that the Russians are, after all, white.”

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 May 2019

      9. Aside from his valuable critiques of nationalist populism, Lukacs was an eloquent defender of historical consciousness as a distinct & valuable form of thinking, with his own work exemplifying how being steeped in history can help illuminate the present & future.

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        2. Tariq Ahsan‏ @tariqahsan 6 May 2019
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          Interesting that “populism” is hyphenated in your essay. Some , especially in Canada, see “populism” in itself as a left wing ideology, like Chavismo, deserving condemnation.

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        3. Tariq Ahsan‏ @tariqahsan 6 May 2019
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          eg: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-28-2018-1.4922257/citizens-must-become-leaders-in-order-to-combat-populism-says-former-diplomat-1.4923583 …

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        1. Anti-disinformation guy‏ @unhiddenness 6 May 2019
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          stop trying to pretend that conservatives are "intellectuals"

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