Even in the United States, nationalist and Christian oriented groups in the period between the World Wars, like the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the Silver Shirts and the Christian Front in the 1930s, and men strongly identified with those groups, like Henry Ford, Charles Coughlin, and Gerald L.K. Smith, blamed the Jews or Jewish influences for many of the problems of the country.
Althiough much of the isolationist literature of 1937 could be revised slightly and be published as current events today in leftist magazines.
he post-World War II conservative movement was largely free of these influences, and several of its leaders, such as Frank Meyer and Milton Friedman, were of Jewish background.
Milton Friedman was Jewish. Frank Meyer and Frank Chodorov, who co-fouding Fusionist Conservatism with Buckley, became Catholic largely due to Buckley's influence. Ralph De Toledano, the only Sephardic Jew of the group just passed away on February 3rd.
Check out lewrockwell.com and antiwar.com, libertarian Web sites that claim affinity with the pre-World War II isolationist movement. America, Britain, and Israel are invariably the bad guys, just as Britain and France were to the isolationists 70 years ago. You will find a similar story at the conspiracist and white supremacist Web sites. Some things don't change.
Frank Meyer and Frank Chodorov, who co-fouding Fusionist Conservatism with Buckley, became Catholic largely due to Buckley's influence.
The post-World War II conservative movement was largely led by Catholics, including William Buckley, Russell Kirk (a convert, I think), James Burnham (a cradle Catholic who returned to his childhood religion in his old age), Brent Bozell, and, as you point out, Chodorov and Meyer.
Ralph De Toledano, the only Sephardic Jew of the group just passed away on February 3rd.
Sadly, the first wave of American conservatives is fading away. Milton Friedman died recently. William Buckley is 80, and William Rusher is in his early 80s.