Q for @HeerJeet and others: What's the earliest reference you know of a prominent national Republican calling the GOP "the Stupid Party"?
@jledbetter Also I think Irving Kristol might have quoted Mill to same effect.
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@HeerJeet It definitely feels like a meme/pain point. -
@jledbetter I'm sure Simon got it from Kristol or Buckley. No way Simon was reading JS Mill on his own.
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@HeerJeet William Simon: "The only thing that can save the Republican Party, in fact, is a counterintelligentsia. Without such a reservoir.. -
@jledbetter Oh, that's pure Irving Kristol he's channelling. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet of antiauthoritarian scholarship on which to draw, itis destined to remain the Stupid Party and to die.It may even deserve to die. -
@jledbetter That's basically the hustle Irving Kristol came up with to shake-down the billionaires for some $$ for neo-cons. - Show replies
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