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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016

      1. Nostalgia won't save us from Donald Trump.

      6 replies 29 retweets 107 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      2. The nostalgic impulse is understandable in a time of crisis. We want to turn back to the old certitudes, find solace in the old gods.

      4 replies 22 retweets 57 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      3. One common form of nostalgia is to suddenly praise old right wing politicians (Reagan!) or thinkers (WF Buckley) as better than Trump.

      7 replies 29 retweets 82 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      4. My constant argument: Trump was not born of an immaculate conception but is product of social forces that go far back in history.

      4 replies 65 retweets 163 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      5. If Trump is worse than earlier right-wingers, it's only because they paved way for such an horrible figure to emerge & lead GOP.

      9 replies 98 retweets 252 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      6. In case of Buckley, it's hard understand how someone who supported McCarthyism, pre-emptive nuclear war & Jim Crow was superior to Trump.

      14 replies 33 retweets 125 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      7. Trump-induced nostalgia has caused a resurgence of interest on the right in Buckley's chief ally, James Burnham.

      1 reply 5 retweets 28 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      8. It's weird that Burnham, widely seen as a fringe figure when he died, is now being upheld as a conservative paragon.

      2 replies 4 retweets 24 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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      9. I explain the problems with Burnham in my latest TNR piece:https://newrepublic.com/article/138250/nostalgia-flawed-thinkers-wont-solve-crisis-conservative-intellectual …

      1 reply 12 retweets 42 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016

      10. Wispy waspy nostalgia of elite conservatives no match for Trump's own muscular nostalgia appealing to memories of white male hegemony.

      12:22 PM - 31 Oct 2016
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        2. Matthew E‏ @MatthewElmslie 31 Oct 2016
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          .@HeerJeet Are you familiar with Will Ferguson's 'Bastards & Boneheads' theory of history? These conservatives, in releasing forces (1/2)

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        3. Matthew E‏ @MatthewElmslie 31 Oct 2016
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          .@HeerJeet they can't control, are classic Fergusonian Boneheads. Ironically, Trump may be a Bastard: his reach may be within his grasp. 2/2

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2016
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          11. Anyways, my latest piece will be of interest to @DouthatNYT, @continetti @robgreeneII & a other fans of intellectual history.

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        1. syl johnston‏ @sejehh 31 Oct 2016
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          haha haha little man

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        1. Rob Braswell‏ @RobWvurob 31 Oct 2016
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          @jspoupart Racist Democrats of yesteryear. Last openly racist president? Yep, Sleazy Democrat Woodrow Wilson

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