Speculation: in 1950s right intellectuals looking for a mass movement to hitch wagon to. Southern resistance to Civil rights fit the bill.
@JustinRaimondo Agree, except I'm using "conservative" in vernacular sense (i.e. Conservative movement tied to NR and GOP).
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@HeerJeet Burnham's "only hint of positive interest in liberty ... was a call for legalized firecrackers." http://www.mises.org/daily/1842 -
@JustinRaimondo Yeah, no question, Burnham didn't have a libertarian cell in his body. The most authoritarian of the original NR crowd. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet@JustinRaimondo Yeah I find it's best to use quotation marks around it. Same goes for "liberal" (though they seldom self-apply).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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