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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Michelle Goldberg

    1. Excellent column. The point made here can be expressed another way: the animating impulse of the right wasn't anti-communism so much as a broader opposition to ameliorative legacy of the Enlightenment, which includes liberalism and social democracy.https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1287899305370681344 …

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2020

        2. I'd argue that for the right, both in America and elsewhere, the enemy was always liberalism & social democracy, with communism as more of a convenient bogey-man. As Hofstadter noted, McCarthyites preferred harassing domestic leftists to actually confronting communist regimes

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2020

        3. Irving Kristol in 1993: "I was indeed a 'Cold Warrior' ... but I was not engaged in any kind of crusade against communism. It was the fundamental assumptions of contemporary liberalism that were my enemy." Anti-liberalism, not anti-communism drove him.

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      2. Sad CM Punk Fan.‏ @_UselessSequels 28 Jul 2020
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        We’re still accusing Russia of being communist when in reality they’re authoritarian right?

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      2. Bill Gardner‏ @Bill_Gardner 28 Jul 2020
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        Or that the motivation for anti-communism wasn't that communism was undemocratic, but rather that it was egalitarian?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jul 2020
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        Yes. It was the positive side of communism they disliked.

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      1. Chris Williams‏ @CWill999 28 Jul 2020
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        People think you sound crazy when you say modern conservatism wants to roll back the Enlightenment, but when you talk to one of them educated enough to understand the question, they typically agree that is their goal.

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      2. Thomas Andrews‏ @binkytom 28 Jul 2020
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        Heck, racial justice in the world was always labeled Communist. MLK and Mandela both labeled Marxist. When Andrew Sullivan says BLM is Marxist, I know what tradition he comes from.

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      1. HTR! HTR!‏ @HTR_x2 28 Jul 2020
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        Or as Sideshow Bob put it: "Lower taxes, brutalize criminals and rule you like a king."

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