2. Key to understand Buckely & the Birchers is to realize that throughout 1940s & 1950s, there were strong voices on the American right who were anti-war & isolationist: Taft, John T. Flynn, Murray Rothbard.
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13. The final wrinkle in all this is that's it is by no means clear Buckley's condemnation had real world effect. Birch Society is still around & its membership peaked in early 1970s, after Buckley's polemic.
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14. For that matter, after Buckley condemned Pat Buchanan, Buchanan went on to deliver the keynote address at GOP convention in 1992.
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15. The Bircher/Buchanan/Sobran wing of GOP never went away. Part of Trump's success in 2016 primaries was he was voice of that wing.
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16. If you want more of this history, I go into the depths here;https://newrepublic.com/article/122804/national-reviews-trump-dilemma-kick-him-out-keep-his-fans …
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Buckley denounced George Wallace, and he was pro-War. He opposed him because Wallace was too Populist and not laissez-faire enough.
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Yes, another example of how politics is not a one-dimensional spectrum from left to right
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It took you 12 points to get to the word ‘bigotry’. Yet this conservative battle was at least in part a war between different kinds or degrees of racial bigotry. None were notracists. Buckley wanted blacks ‘in their place’. Birchers tended not to want them at all.
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