2. The assumption here is that there was a time when D'Souza wasn't part of the conservative movement. That hasn't been true since he jointed Dartmouth Review as undergraduate in 1980 at age 19.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/966781463365636101 …
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3. D'Souza was terrible since he was undergraduate editor. Ran article in minstrel show dialogue & slogan "the only good Indian is a dead Indian."pic.twitter.com/c4Gt0SpX5U
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4. At Dartmouth D'Souza also outed 2 gay students. Then he flourished as conservative pundit, writing for National Review, Wall Street Journal, American Spectator etc. & serving as AEI fellow. He's still on National Review masthead.
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5. But D'Souza came at late stage of conservatism. Consider National Review, founded in 1955 by editors who, to a person, supported Joseph McCarthy.
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6. Le Pen & Farage are bad, yes. But William F. Buckley's brother-in-law (who was also Barry Goldwater's speechwriter) upheld Franco's Spain as the ideal Christian state.
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7. Shocked by Le Pen at CPAC? In 1960s National Review celebrated French far right assassins who tried to kill Charles De Gaulle.pic.twitter.com/f7extHO4df
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8. Shocked by Gorka at CPAC? In 1970s National Review allowed its coverage of Chile to be guided by a member of the Pinochet regime.https://newrepublic.com/article/123073/national-review-should-apologize-cooperating-augusto-pinochet …
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9. I could go on & on. We all know that. Instead of that, let's listen to the excellent
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10. Now, you're probably wondering how Jack Kirby, Darkseid, and Bill Graham fit into all this. Give me a minute.....
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