A lot of folks on the right seem to do intellectual history like a Glenn Beck whiteboard, where the goal is to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon connecting some modern idea to Hitler or Stalin by way of German philosophy.
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A lot of this stuff comes out of the popularization & vulgarization of Strauss and Voegelin in the 1950s and 1960s. That was pretty big in early conservative movement.
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Oh God, does this mean we're going to get Josh Hawley denouncing Joachim of Flora?
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Replying to @williameburns13 @normative
Goddamn gnostics. They messed everything up.
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