“far from socialism” does not equate with “good”.
Could you be more specific as to what Buckley actually wrote?
And what did Buckley say about George’s ideas on, say, land nationalization? Or George’s ideas about wealth redistribution?
That’s essentially what the progressives did, they went the other way, and its what makes Georgism overall a bad thing. The progressives looked at George’s ideas on these topics,(nationalization/redistribution) were big fans of them, and that’s how Georgism becomes an important foundational part of progressivism.