That the Left as an institution had won, the Right was already dead and didn't know it, and the great danger was now the revolution being betrayed *In 1946* What the FUCK
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Yeah - at least Hitler was a real threat, and at least Churchill's speeches were good.
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Hitchens swooning over Bush's post-9/11 "angel in the whirlwind" speech is one of the most embarrassing things that embarrassing man ever said and anyone who still stood up for him after that should be embarrassed out of public life
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But anyway It's fascinating to think that another one of my childhood icons, Tolkien, was an enormous contrast on this Tolkien actually being a conservative and yet someone who did in fact hate war on a visceral level way more than Orwell
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And who, therefore, although he hated Hitler deeply (as one must, to avoid going to hell) also hated the Allies and Churchill and avoided ever saying anything nice about them and got really fucking mad when people said Churchill was Gandalf or whatever
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