It may be precisely Chambers' pro-New Deal moderation that George Will finds objectionable:http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-irreplaceable-william-f-buckley-jr/ …
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
Though it's certainly true that Kendall was far closer to the populist strain on the right.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
Chambers as populist is a real stretch. There's some "common man" rhetoric in Witness but he was an Eisenhower/Nixon Republican.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I think Will has an ideological interest in conflating the economic moderates with the populists. There is some overlap, but ...
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Replying to @DouthatNYT @HeerJeet
... he wants to imagine a conservatism that kept a highbrow tone *and* a strictly libertarian politics. That is, a minor sect :)
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
So basically an Albert Jay Nock conservatism. Yes, that would be a minor sect.Will himself thought welfare state should be accepted in 1970s
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Replying to @HeerJeet
He's explicitly repudiated Statecraft as Soulcraft I believe.
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More's the pity! In some alternative timeline Will is the figure who turns American conservatism into European-style Christian Democracy.
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