[jocon307]

"A few years ago, an archconservative who had talked with some of the present-day, would-be purifiers of the American stock told me they were delighted at the deaths from AIDS of homosexuals."

I'm not sure it is the archconservative who is being critized here. I'm not sure it is archconservatives who are the "would-be purifiers", it could be, but it isn't clear that that is what is being stated.

[T'wit]

Yes, you're right, it is not clear whom he's criticizing. (Except, of course, that archconservatives have horns and a pointy tail :-) )