1.I don't know if this is genuine naivety or just rhetoric but this tweet represents a view of the conservative movement that is woefully at odds with history.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/966781463365636101 …
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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
@michaelbd, writing in National Review, debunking the idea of pristine conservative past:https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/conservatism-decline-not-really/ …Show this thread -
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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DRAG THEM, JEET
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More of D'Souza's Dartmouth Review lameness in the notes of this review of his film Hillary's America http://cultjamproductions.blogspot.com/2016/08/movie-review-dinesh-dsouzas-hillarys.html …
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