5. In contrast to Buchanan, William F. Buckley shows how USA right gave up anglophobia as part of embrace of American led global hegemony. Nora Ephron summed up this evolution by saying of Buckley, "give an Irishman a horse and he'll vote Tory."
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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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TBF, the results of kicking out the Kaiser and the Habsburgs after WWI had not been altogether positive.
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Current Middle East Policy as well
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There's a lot of this kind of thing in Tom Clancy too. Jack Ryan gets knighted for saving Prince Charles; Ryan makes friends with a Saudi prince; a Japanese character says of Ryan that "he is samurai".
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