2. Buckley and Bozell had the kind of lives that make a perfect novel: both scions of wealthy families, best buds at Yale, brothers by Bozell's marriage to Buckley's favorite sister, collaborators in McCarthyism & conservatism, and then a falling out over jealousy & politics
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3. In 1960s Buckley became the ultimate establishment insider, the pal of Kissinger, the palatable face of the right for PBS & mainstream media, while Bozell took up seeming lost causes (Carlist monarchism, anti-abortion violence). Yet in 2021 Bozell legacy looms maybe larger
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4. After Trump presidency, it's Buckley style establishment conservatism that seems marginal, caught between irrelevance of Never Trumpers and the impossibility of putting an intellectual shine on Trumpism. While Bozell's legacy of theocracy & authoritarianism is everywhere.
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5. After January 6, where his grandson took part in storming of capital, can we really say L. Brent Bozell Jr. is irrelevant? With the rising of a new cohort of Catholic integralist, is Bozell merely of antiquarian interest?
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6. There have been 4 L. Brent Bozells. Bozell Sr: union buster in 1930s, Bozell Jr. advocated pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia in 1950s, III said Obama looks like skinny, ghetto crackhead", Bozell IV took part in Capitol riot in 2021.
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7. To paraphrase Oliver Wendall Holmes, four generations of L. Brent Bozell is enough! But there will be more L. Brent Bozells in the future, as I explain here.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bozell-buckley-right-violence/ …
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overshadowed, Jeet, not "over shadowed" Brent had BPD, but many people do
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Was that photo taken after his passing?
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So what do you want to do tonight, Brain?
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@david_j_roth@BobbyBigWheel L. Brent and William F. had two perfect "1950s conservative" faces -
As I said before, Pinky and the Brain.pic.twitter.com/IgS48YKMxA
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