Posted on 12/30/2020 4:43:40 AM PST by Onthebrink
Conservatives got an inkling of how bad 2020 would be before the year even started. On Dec. 30, 2019, Gertrude Himmelfarb died. She was just the first of many conservative luminaries to die over the next 12 months — and it is worth remembering each one and what they contributed to conservatism and our country. As conservatism enters its next chapter, without a slew of great ideas or clarity regarding its future direction, learning lessons from these heroes of the past can potentially be a first step in discerning the way forward into the future.
Let’s start with Himmelfarb, an eminent historian and also wife of the late Irving Kristol. She wrote scholarly and compelling works about anti-Semitism and the Victorian era that always had contemporary relevance. Even those who disliked her politics could not question her scholarship. As the New York Times acknowledged in its obituary of Himmelfarb, “she viewed the growing absence of footnotes in scholarly books as ‘a moral lapse.’”
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I dispute the author’s contention that the death of a super old person presages a “bad year” or that a year is “bad” because super old people died during it. It seems like a really po’ mouth way of recognizing that some (super old) people we admired - from Gertrude Himmelfarb to Walter Williams - died, as they were bound to at some point.
I agree. Losing the old guard happens. The problem is when a torch is not passed. I believe it’s far past time for conservatives to stop playing nice and start playing dirty. Trump has shown us how to outwit our liberal opponents. It really is not difficult. They’re flush with cash but not with brains, and everyone knows the old adage, “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
In the lens of history, the Crusades were seen as a battle of Christianity against Islam. I think it’s time for American conservatives to declare a crusade against globalist liberals.
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The article omitted the death of Mike Adams, who was a strong and great conservative. Whether it actually was a suicide or something more nefarious (he made many enemies among college homos and feminists), it is a sad tragedy and a great loss.
Yes, Mike Adams’s death was an unhappy surprise.
The list seems more populated with neoconservatives than conservatives.
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