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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      5. The problem National Review faced in early 1960s was Birchers were both very popular (providing mass base needed to take over GOP) & conspiracy prone (Bircher head Robert Welch thought Eisenhower was a communist).

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      6. National Review editors very divided on Birchers. James Burnham thought they were “the embryo...of the genuine American form of fascism." Frank Meyer: many Birchers "outstanding & sane conservatives.”

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      7. To thread the needle of disputes over JBS, Buckley penned 1962 editorial criticizing leader Robert Welch but praising ordinary Birchers (“some of the most morally energetic, self-sacrificing, and dedicated anti-communists in America").

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      8. Buckley did not condemn Birch Society in 1962-1964, when they were instrumental in helping Goldwater conservatives take over GOP. Birchers were too useful to condemn.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      9. Buckley only finally and definitively condemned Birch Society in 1965, after GOP under conservative control, and not because they were conspiratorial but because they opposed the Vietnam war.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      10. As Lyndon Johnson reviving up Vietnam War, Birch Society reverted to older isolationism. Saw Vietnam as distraction from real problem (communist control of USA government).

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      11. Buckley's 1965 purge of the Birch Society is a continuation of his 1950s purging of anti-war voices. His big worry was mass movement of USA right that was anti-war.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      12. The same pattern can be seen in Buckley's later turn against Pat Buchanan & Joseph Sobran. They had voiced bigotry for years but Buckley criticized them when they opposed first Iraq War.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Feb 2018

          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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        2. Clean Face  🌻‏ @theminorchords 24 Feb 2018
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          I don't think it was a coincidence that Trump went after Rand Paul first. I suspected Rand's thinking was ascendant in the party. Trump's advisers must have informed him that he had to kneecap Rand first so he could take on that mantle.

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        3. Clean Face  🌻‏ @theminorchords 24 Feb 2018
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          The folks on the Left that want to form alliances with anti-war (i.e. isolationist) conservatives don't understand that these people also have all sorts of baggage (racism, free market fundamentalism) that makes it impossible to form a cohesive alliance with them.

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