6. Buckley knew that on accusation of fascism, he and National Review were vulnerable to a polemicist like Vidal
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@HeerJeet This one is great fun re Buckley and radicals. A wee Hitchens makes him and Emmett Tyrell look like fools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGKcX-JHNE …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Maybe. Firing Line episode with Hitchens is maybe illustrative of this. Buckley tries, in vain, to frame him as a conventional DemThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet To his credit, be voluntarily took them on. What passes for Conservative intelligentsia today avoids direct debate.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Glorious to watch him against Buckley though, isn't it? He so fails to grasp the degree to which he is overmatched.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Baldwin, I think, was simply a better rhetorician. Speech contra Buckley was a personal narrative & reflection on slavery. -
@HeerJeet He wasn't radical in that moment, imo. And the Chomsky debate: was opp. to American interventionism really radical in '69? - Show replies
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