Tucker Carlson Agrees that William F. Buckley Jr. Was ‘One of the Great Villains of the 20th Century

Mediaite ^ | 11/30/2023 | isaac Schorr

[Miami Rebel]

With Barry Goldwater, and later Ronald Reagan, Buckley created the modern conservative movement. I eagerly await Carlson's attacks on the two others.

[Steely Tom]

Because he kicked the John Birch Society out of the Conservative movement ?

[dforest]

National Review stinks n00b.

[NorthMountain]

The great irony will be when some brainless kid on this forum condemns Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, or Bill Buckley as a “neocon”.

[Wuli]

Carlson is losing it.

[Responsibility2nd]

With Barry Goldwater, and later Ronald Reagan, Buckley created the modern conservative movement.

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How hard did you have to try to be this wrong?

Goldwater and Buckley were libertarians. Reagan said one nice thing about libertarians back in the 70’s. Which they proved to be untrue. Reagan also said the Democratic Party left him.

[Responsibility2nd]

Carlson is losing it.

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He lost it with his manic obsession over UFO’s.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Don’t you understand? There is only one true Republican and his name is Trump. Any other so-called Republican who has failed to take the DJT loyalty oath is a darn dirty RINO, even if they are too dead to do so.

[9YearLurker]

And that it was a CIA creation tells you something.

The elite are very effective at interjecting their operatives into the leadership of any and every movement.

[Bayard]

Tucker Carlson Says crazy things, this is an example of his craziness.

Lets not forget that there are kooky people who speak on Trump’s side as well.

I do want freedom of speech to exist on the internet however.

[Political Junkie Too]

Buckley's series of debate videos are also interesting to watch.

It's classic debate club style debates, not presidential campaign style debates.

-PJ

[Nateman]

Ayn Rand would carefully examine any party invitations to see if William F. Buckley was also invited. If so she would not go. So who was the bad guy here? Buckley wanted to protect Religion and Rand saw Religion as an enemy of reason. Although Rand came from a Jewish family she clearly was not a faithful child.

[ColoCdn]

Used to buy National Review religiously.

Believed that it, and as a counter balance, Foreign Affairs were giving me insight into the real struggles of right versus left in this nation and abroad.

Took me a while, but I don’t hold Buckley in any esteem any more. The father of the modern neocons, IMHO.

[G Larry]

How did Tucker manage to go off of the deep end so quickly?

[NorthMountain]

Goldwater and Buckley were libertarians. No. They were "conservatives", and were founders of "conservatism" as we know it in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

[Ann Archy]

Carlson is going full Ann Coulter !

[ColoCdn]

Not a Neocon.
Father of neocons?
Yes.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Like I view Bill Buckley as like one of the great villains of the 20th century. I think he ruined-”

At that point, Carlson interrupted to shout “I couldn’t agree more!”

I know Buckley mostly as the founder of National Review, and I know it's an irrelevant rag devoted mostly to Trump-hatred these days, but during Buckley's lifetime it was a strong voice for conservatism.

So why does Carlson view Buckley as one of the great villains of the 20th century? The 20th century featured real villains like Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot, who between them murdered over 50 million people - how many people did Buckley kill?