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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      3. Gatekeeping role has led NR to occasionally purge various people/movements from right: John Birch Society, libertarians, Geo. Wallace etc

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      4. This history gets celebrated in triumphalist terms -- i.e. NR helped create "respectable right" by kicking out kooks.

      3 replies 6 retweets 7 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      5. As I try and show in my article, reality is a bit different. Birchers kooky but NR in alliance with them from 1958 to 1965.

      1 reply 4 retweets 12 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      6. And what really turned NR agains Birchers was Vietnam war (which Birchers started to question, as well as Cold War consensus).

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      7. Also, as @notjessewalker shrewdly noted, it's not clear that NR's various purges were in fact effective.

      1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      8. Birchers remained force long after purge (peaked in late 1960s, early 1970s). Same with Ayn Rand, libertarians.

      1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      9. Most significant recent purge was 1990s of paleo-cons for being too overtly racist (Sobran, Francis, Buchanan, etc.).

      3 replies 7 retweets 9 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      10. The thing with paleo-cons purged is they didn't go away: they continued to have audience & were precursors to Trumpism

      2 replies 7 retweets 11 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      11. Not sufficiently appreciated (except by @michaelbd) that Sam Francis & Pat Buchanan were fathers of alt-right, key Trumpist movement.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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      12 So, one big thought is that ability of National Review to purge people on the right tends to be overstated by historians/journalists.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016

      13. To extent that NR did once have power to purge, that was in very different media environment than exists now.

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        1. joshcenters.btc‏ @jcenters 21 Jan 2016
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          @HeerJeet I’m not even sure that much of the base reads, or is even aware of, National Review.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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          14. NR's power in 1960s was that it was one of the few national outlets for conservative movement. That's not true anymore.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Jan 2016
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          15. In 1965, if Time Magazine or Washington Post wanted to find out what "the right" thought, NR was one of few sources. Not anymore.

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