Interesting article
The attacks on the John Birch Society by the Wm F Buckley types always bugged me....because if you were truly conservative...you sure would not try to disavow the JBS
Of course, all the cheerleaders for Wm F Buckley (who was actually a NeoLiberal Globalist) sure have piped down as his son has shown the true Buckley family liberal colors
You can’t visit the sins of the son upon the father, necessarily. Old Bill wouldn’t ever have voted Obama, methinks. I don’t know what you mean by “neoliberal,” exactly, whether it goes back to people like Bastiat, or maybe is some clever attempt at parodying “neocon.” By “globalist” I’m going to assume you mean free trader, and therefore unreconstructed Jeffersonianism it is.
It may amuse you to know libertarians repudiate him just as strongly. I’ve heard him accused of being a CIA mouthpiece. A funny book, “The Probability Broach,” posits an alternate timeline wherein the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded in overthrowing the constitutional government, and things end up much better. Hamiltonians get to be the Big Bads, but special mention goes to followers of, if I recall correctly, Buckley F. Williams and his followers, who want what the Hamiltonians want, only a little less.
He had some of those tendencies you might call “neoliberal,” such as opposition to the Drug War and shortly before his death opposition to the Iraq War (despite his magazine’s position). But I place him as more of a statist than myself.
Wm F Buckley was a NeoLiberal Globalist just as the John Birchers knew! Buckley really showed this when he purged the National Review of actual conservatives and filled the leadership with the NeoCon aka faux Con followers of Strauss and Trotsky. It has always been pretty evident that almost all Yankee Republicans were worthless and just look what these types have done hand in hand with leftist progs aka Stalin’s useful tools towards destroying the Republic.