3. So, the praise of the British monarchy from American sources like National Review & Heritage Foundation has struck many people as strange. Aside from long-standing USA anti-monarchism, the American right has long had a powerful anglophobe strain.
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14. Bozell's neo-Carlist movement should not be dismissed as fringe weirdos. They had a real importance on Catholic right in creating the model of fighting reproductive freedom by harassing clinics.pic.twitter.com/P1DeSIQ8CY
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15. To be fair, idea of using monarchs as USA Cold War allies was not just confined to the far right. USA Middle East policy and Japan policy had similar impetus.
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16. In 1976, the same year William F. Buckley wrote about wanting to spank and fuck the Queen, Jack Kirby created an allegory about a neo-aristocratic American elite that wanted to destroy democracy by fomenting racism and culture war.
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17. Kirby's Madbomb story (Captain America 193-200, 1976) is a bicentennial epic about a plot to turn Americans into raving mobs fighting each other. The villain turns out to be a plutocrat named Malcolm Taurey (i.e. Tory) who wants to restore aristocracy.pic.twitter.com/8Cn3LGdDOZ
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18. I wouldn't want to make too much of a claim for Kirby's Madbomb story except that it does map well with the emergence of an American right that is explicitly nostalgic for aristocracy and can succeed only by divide-and-conquer race war.
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19. One last thing. If you want to hear William F. Buckley read out his sex fantasies about the Queen of England (interspersed with reflections on American power and boarding school stories) do I have a Youtube for you.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1373328678659178500 …
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This is true. Explains much about his dry-drunk son L.Brent Bozell III.
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At the same time Bozell was getting really involved in the neo-Carlist movement, he was also ghostwriting a little book called "The Conscience of a Conservative" to help foist a Barry Goldwater presidential run onto the Republican National Convention in 1960...
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Habsburg was an anti-facist which would put him well to left of the American Right.
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