2. Before Orban, there was Franco. A significant subset of National Review right, led by William F. Buckley's brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell, exalted the Spanish fascist as offering a viable and desirable alternative.pic.twitter.com/DZmQjgVjGm
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2. Before Orban, there was Franco. A significant subset of National Review right, led by William F. Buckley's brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell, exalted the Spanish fascist as offering a viable and desirable alternative.pic.twitter.com/DZmQjgVjGm
3. Bozell broke with Buckley and has been unfairly relegated into sidelines of history, but he represented an important, innovative branch of right that has had a lasting legacy: the integralist right (now joined by Protestant theocrats).
4. Bozell ran annual camps in Franco's Spain that played a significant role in forming a cadre of intellectual hard right in Catholic, including priests. That's the model going forward. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/tilting-at-franco?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter …
Read my book, American Fascism. It covers this in detail.
Autocracy is popular in America right now. We're an autocratic managed democracy without an autocrat.
Not sure what it means, but fwiw my gf’s Fidesznik father has never heard of Tucker Carlson, nor has anyone else in Hungary apparently. Probably doesn’t affect its American implications but interesting that the flirtation is sort of unrequited.
Sounds like a Cadre of counter-elites who want this as a path to power.
Don't neglect the role of Opus Dei in this stuff. The white monk in The Da Vinci Code may be fictional, but the underlying movement is not
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