Buckley is one of them there, what you call, intellectuals, albeit one of conservative stripes. Intellectuals have a hard time with straight talk. They prefer pontification, embellishment, and bloviating. They use Cadillac words when Chevy words are sufficient. They get lost and confused when they hear simplistic matter-of-fact speech such as, America - good, terrorists - evil, freedom - good, tyranny - bad. It just blows their gourd.
lOL. Very well put, I may steal this post one day.