Well, as someone who grew up in an ultra, ultra liberal home in an ultra liberal community with a parent who worked for the U.N.- and was taught to mock and deride the JBS - guess what - when I began to read history closely, I discovered to my great surprise that Robert Welch was right about communism and right about Eisenhower.
It was under Eisenhower’s watch that both Tibet and Cuba were taken over by communism. When the U.S. ambassador to Cuba went to D.C. in 1957 to warn Eisenhower that Castro was a Red, Eisenhower responded by firing the ambassador.
Buckley was a pretentious patrician fool who dumped on the JBS for reasons of class, not politics.
Welch was WRONG!!!! about Eisenhower, and you’re wrong about Buckley. Buckley (and Goldwater’s) biggest sin was opposing the Civil Rights movement which cost the Republican Party a great percentage of the Black vote. But in his day Buckley was practically the only media voice opposing the march of socialism in the U.S. He opposed Robert Welch because he was nut who did great harm to the conservative movement by calling everything that moved communist. Welch and people like the anti-Semitic Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby were two people/orgs. regular conservatives were well rid of.