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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7. Also, as
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8. Birchers remained force long after purge (peaked in late 1960s, early 1970s). Same with Ayn Rand, libertarians.
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9. Most significant recent purge was 1990s of paleo-cons for being too overtly racist (Sobran, Francis, Buchanan, etc.).
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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
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11. Not sufficiently appreciated (except by
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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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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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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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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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16. The right-wing media landscape is much larger and much more fragmented, and some large outlets/voices are Trumpists.
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17. In the world of Breitbart & alt right twitter, NR is like the Pope issuing an encyclical to a throng of ultra-protestant sects.
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18. A further problem is that, as with Birchers, NR doesn't have clean hands here. Trumpism incubated in magazine.
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