Agree with this and am grateful to Linker for making explicit that the anti-"CRT" crowd and its centrist allies are carrying out a McCarthyite project.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1408797089950281734 …
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@DamonLinker praises Irving Kristol's comment: "There is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocably anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification."1 reply 6 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
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"McCarthyite." Right, Jeet. That's exactly what I expected you to say.
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You approvingly quoted Irving Kristol's 1952 pro-McCarthy statement!
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It was never a "pro-McCarthy" statement. It came in an essay that called McCarthy a "vulgar demagogue." (Compare that to Buckley's genuinely pro-McCarthy stance at the time.) His point then and mine now is that calling out McCarthy isn't enough.
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Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet
It praised him for his unequivocal anti-Communist stance. That was the point.
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Yes, it was good to be anti-communist in 1952.
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Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet
Not just anti-Communist. Hysterically anti-Communist. It was good to be anti-Soviet, not anti-Communist. Seeing communism as monolithic got us into a lot of trouble. In any case, everyone was anti-Communist in 1952. Adlai Stevenson sure was. It was never enough for conservatives.
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I actually think it was good to be anti-Soviet *and* anti-Communist in 1952. That most people were was a good thing. Though that didn't excuse egregious antiliberalism in response, any more than the excesses of the left now excuse GOP states trying to outlaw what's called CRT.
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Positing a unitary anti-communism as well as unitary communism was and is incredibly misleading. There's a bid difference between the anti-communism of an Irving Howe and the anti-communism of McCarthy (or on a higher plain Burnham/Kristol.)
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