I was a young conservative during the Reagan years in college and grad school; I was routinely called a Nazi and a fascist and other names because I, like, voted for Reagan and read NR. So spare me your hurt feelings about how "liberal" became a term of derision.https://twitter.com/jwilliamhoffman/status/968241920186179584 …
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I think that's a fair point. I'd still say that's different from barely-covert racism, and Kirkpatrick's piece was written from the safety of academia (and proves the truth-telling power of tenure, imo). And as
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But I remember the 80s as an in-the-trenches time in Cold War intra-US politics. Kirkpatrick's piece was 1979, when Carter was fumbling his way out, and I still can't see someone in '85 saying "Yeah, SA is awful, but they're our kind of awful."
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Not so much difference in practice. Both sides supported Franco until he fell over.
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A consensus the geopolitical fallout from which we all get to deal with forever.
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