2. Some people are expressing surprise at the presence of Marion Maréchal-Le Pen at CPAC but it helps to know the history of the Reactionary Internationalhttps://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/966781463365636101 …
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3. We all know about the Socialist International and there is also a Liberal International but more informally there has long been a cross-fertilization of the European & American right.
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4. As George Nash and other historians have noted, the American conservatism born after 1945 was very heavily indebted to European emerges (Strauss, Voegelin, Hayek) & very oriented towards European cultures (particularly Catholic ones).
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5. Implicitly many postwar conservatives had the same intuition as Louis Hartz & Richard Hofstadter: USA was society with liberal individualist founding. So they looked to Europe as an alternative.
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6. Best example is Brent Bozell (National Review founder & Goldwater ghost writer) who thought Franco's Spain was ideal Christian civilization. He & his wife ran camp for people to see splendour of this society.
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7. National Review also celebrated renegade French military leaders who tried to overthrow the Fifth Republic & kill de Gaulle.pic.twitter.com/z1QukaDvwS
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8. The feeling was mutual. Many on European right admired USA counterparts. Otto von Hapsburg, pretender to Austrian throne, said National Review was the only magazine that talked sense to the American people.
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9. Maurice Papon, a fascist who as head of Paris police ordered the massacres of 1961 & 1962 that killed more than 100 protesters, was influenced by National Review editor James Burnham.pic.twitter.com/d2H7JsR8Cz
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10. So when we hear someone yelling "Vive la France!" at CPAC, that's part of an old tradition. The right has its own internationalism.https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/966746151692185602 …
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11. I write about this in more depth here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147187/american-rights-deep-ties-reactionary-europe …
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12. Now, you might wonder, how does Jack Kirby fit into all this?
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