2. Remember the Straussians? The pundits and think tankers who supplied the intellectual rational for G.W. Bush? They weren't the worst.
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3. There are in fact 2 major branches of Straussianism. Like 1980s rap music, there are East Coast Straussians and West Coast Straussians.
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4. East Coast Straussians are mainly old Cold War Liberals or establishment Republicans: support American global hegemony.
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5. West Coast Straussians -- really the students of the late Harry Jaffa -- are more aligned with GOP grassroots & Christian right.
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6. The founders of the two respective schools -- Harry Jaffa & Allan Bloom -- were friends once, co-writing a book on Shakespeare's Politics
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7. Jaffa & Bloom had a falling out with Jaffa calling Bloom & East Coast Straussians "nihilists." East Coasters responded Jaffa was a "pest"
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8. The Jaffa/Bloom falling out can't be separated from sex. Jaffa was extreme homophobe, Bloom closeted gay man with door half-open.
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9. Jaffa's homophobia complicated by fact he enjoyed intense homoerotic relations with his male students.pic.twitter.com/PZifPDL0N3
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10. For Bloom, gay sex okay so long as it was private & no political gay identity. Jaffa wanted to stick with strenuous bike rides.
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11. Out of the sexual divide between Jaffa and Bloom emerged a whole sociological divide.
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12. Jaffa-inflected West Coasters aligned with religious right while more cosmopolitan East Coasters aligned with Pentagon hawks.
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13. But root difference is regime change. East Coasters want to impose regime change on Middle East, West Coasters want regime change in USA
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14. I go into greater depth on West Coast Straussians and Trump here:https://newrepublic.com/article/137410/pro-trump-intellectuals-want-overthrow-america …
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