Posted on 02/03/2022 7:32:29 AM PST by Heartlander
And many still do that
Tim Scott who’s GOPe for sure another example
Whereas sarah palin
Who hit the woman button
Was more about her culture war rhetoric which sounded good even if her political management was not as definable
I don’t think her identity was her draw at all and may have hurt actually
She pushed back too
Like Trump and DeSantis do
bump
“Chronicles”
Yep. For too many years Chronicles was a neglected voice of the Old Right and paleos. And a good deal of that neglect came from neocon hatred of the very conservative movement that they were hijacking. If you liked Chronicles you were a racist or a Nazi, depending whether the hater was David Frum or Bill Kristol or Dinesh D’Souza.
The policies that Trump embraces were fermenting there decades ago in the essays of Sam Francis, Chilton Williamson, Pat Buchanan, Joe Sobran, Paul Gottfried. IIRC all of them were expatriots of National Review as Buckley turned his once great magazine over to the losers who wrecked it. I began subscribing the then Chronicles of Culture in the 1980s when Leopold Tyrmand was still alive. Tyrmand was a Polish immigrant who understood that culture preceded politics. It’s been years since I subscribed so I don’t know what the current staff of Chronicles is like.
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