4. Pat Buchanan is maybe the sole surviving example of the older right-wing Anglophobia. Of German-Irish descent, Buchanan still writes Lindberghian books blaming Brits for snookering USA into fighting WWI and WWII.
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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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Frederick Wilhelmsen was another interesting character. And Hungarian Thomas Molnar who admired Charles Maurras.
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