2. The break-up of the Jaffa/Bloom friendship had more than personal ramifications. It became the focal point of a wider split between the Straussian movement and, ultimately, the Republican Party.
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3. Like hip-hop, Straussians are defined by a coastal split. Jaffa's school (West Coast Straussians) have long been aligned with hard right movement conservatism. Bloom's school (East Coast Straussians) gravitate towards the more establishment foreign policy wing of GOP.
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4. During the George W. Bush administration much was written (some of it by me) about the East Coast Straussian inflection of foreign policy hawkery. Less notice has been the role West Coast Straussians have played inside Trump administration as ultra-nationalists.
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5. The West Coast Straussians say the East Coast Straussians are nihilists. The East Coast Straussians reply the West Coast Straussians are fanatics. My compromise is to recognize both are right.
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6. I sat down for a great podcast with
@willwilkinson about Leo Strauss, the esoteric and the exoteric, the homosocial and the homoerotic, nihilists & fanatics, & the roots of GOP extremism.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-deep-roots-of-gop-extremism?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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I was once reading in Honnold library at Claremont. Some old bum looks why I'm reading Donald Fehrenbach when he himself has written much better books on this subject. As the bum walked away someone told me this was Harry Jaffa.
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He was a bitter old man, yes.
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"1." as in "reasons you should despair and bitterly abandon notions of friendship and kindness" -- what list *is* this Jeet?
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Bloom never considered himself a 'gay man.' I speak from firsthand knowledge, having studied political theory at U of T when he was there and involved in the gay movement at that time. 1/
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It may seem a pedantic point, because there is no question that Bloom had sex with other men and that is how he contracted HIV. But how he understood that sex is not a minor point. 2/
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