This is exactly right. Conservatives in 1940s & 1950s routinely denounced atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.https://twitter.com/jackhunter74/status/737344791315283968 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Also: In 1940s conservatives like Russell Kirk & Henry Regnery criticized internment of Japanese Americans, which rightwing now defends.
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I think the pendulum has swung much further on Hiroshima than on internment.
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Fair enough, but Trump's comments on internment should give us pause: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-defends-ban-on-muslims-no-different-from-how-fdr-treated-japanese/ …
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No doubt. But that isn't a part of the standard conservative catechism, while the defense of the bombings is.
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Part of the story here is that in 1960s/1970s as neo-cons absorbed into USA right, Harry Truman cult also moved right.
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