Speculation: in 1950s right intellectuals looking for a mass movement to hitch wagon to. Southern resistance to Civil rights fit the bill.
@JustinRaimondo Maybe the case with Buckley. Not sure about other National Reviewers like Burnham, etc. Seems opportunistic in some cases.
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@HeerJeet Wrong. Burnham opposed all civil rights legislation & upheld "scientific" racism: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/James_Burnham#cite_note-Muravchik-30 … -
@JustinRaimondo Yeah, but if you look at Burnham's stuff in 1940s he was sympathetic to civil rights and even empathetic to some forms 1/2 - Show replies
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