testing out thesis: two crises pushed the conservative movement into mainstream respectability, 1) the protests and riots of the late 1960s, 2) stagflation in the 1970s
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I think this is true. Judis' biography of Buckley can verify 1) -- with rise of New Left, WFB was viewed more favorably by centrist liberals, who increasingly dominated his social circle (Abe Rosenthal comes to mind here).
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