1. A few quick thoughts on Francisco Franco, the Socialist International, assassination attempts against Charles De Gaulle, Ross Douthat, Marion, Maréchal-Le Pen, CPAC, & the pretender to the Austrian-Hungarian empire.
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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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This political cross-pollination goes two ways, and starts before WW II. Hitler's Nuremberg Laws were formulated using experience of Jim Crow laws.
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I know but I wanted to avoid Godwin's Law!
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