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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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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Until he committed the cardinal sin of suggesting that Evangelicals and Muslims might make common cause against cultural liberalism. A stupendous misread of where the Right was heading post-9/11.
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Christ, what an asshole.
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Hey, not only did National Review support McCarthy, it was carrying articles in favor of segregation back in the day, characterizing African-Americans as "the inferior race".
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Yep, if anything D’Sousa seems a fringe player now, compared to then.
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