Yessir and us Buchanan fans have a loooonnggg memory.
I can recall early in the Trump campaign saying how long before he gets “jew’d” meaning they have to paint him as some kind of racist or anti-Semite.
However this election cycle being painted a “Globalist” or a “Cuck” is far more damaging than being painted a racist or Xenophobe. The terms have simply become meaningless. I see young people on twitter, just mocking the left by referring to themselves as being “Fashy” i.e. Fascist. The label is losing it’s meaning.
Trotsky was the first given credit for using “racist” as a way of shaming your opponent. I don’t mean racism never existed, I’m talking about as a political tactic. And Irving Kristol spoke highly of Trotsky.
“And Irving Kristol spoke highly of Trotsky.”
He certainly did. The first neocons were neo-commmunists in their youth. And plenty of the younger ones have their own roots in the Left.
Michael Medved was a Hanoi supporting ‘antiwar activist’ who went on the work for Red Ron Dellums. The first cover story smearing Buchanan as an anti-Semite was published in Commentary Magazine by one Joshua Muravchik, the one time leader of the Young People’s Socialist League. Charles Krauthammer was a speechwriter for Mondale trying to defeat Ronald Reagan’s second term, although that’s more a liberal than a Leftist thing.
But you get the point, plenty of these neocons are far from admirable and yet they pass themselves as “conservatives” while working to push the GOP to the left. No borders, amnesty, no opposition to gay marriage or most any other social issue that the Left wants to impose in their war against the old America.