[Fiji Hill]

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the JBS, for some reason, was cool, and at times even hostile to the Reagan movement, which alienated it form many grass-roots conservatives. Also, for some reason, they were hostile to Rush Limbaugh, and the New American, their house organ, ran a couple of articles denouncing Rush. They also feuded with conservative publisher and polemicist William F. Buckley in a rhubarb that dated back to the early sixties.

However, today the JBS is on the Trump train and is at one with the MAGA crowd on issues such as Amendment Two, mask and vaccine mandates, election fraud, border security, and so on.

[Dr. Sivana]

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the JBS, for some reason, was cool, and at times even hostile to the Reagan movement, which alienated it form many grass-roots conservatives. Also, for some reason, they were hostile to Rush Limbaugh, and the New American, their house organ, ran a couple of articles denouncing Rush. They also feuded with conservative publisher and polemicist William F. Buckley in a rhubarb that dated back to the early sixties.

Their main beef with Reagan was his ardent support for international "free trade" (with some noted deviations), "Tax Reform Act of 1986", some of his appointments, Nancy, and his priorities. Also, they would have liked him to maintain an even more anti-communist tone consistently.

William F. Buckley went out of his way to marginalize JBS from the beginning, fearing that what he viewed as the crazies would doom conservatism from being a winning movement, and especially disagreeing on tariffs and intervention not related to stopping Communism.

There is a range of opinions held by members and leadership of JBS, just as there are in NR and the Republican Party.