[wardaddy]

The money shot for all neoconservatives whether Jewish or not.....

Buckley excommunicated the John Birch Society, anti-Semites

You can use anti semitism or racism or homophobia etc and that line decscribes where the GOP and what was once called conservatism went off the rails and became no different than the left about traditional America....that we are bigots and our history is one of Christian bigotry and racism and sexism and xenophobia and not to be respected but destroyed

I don't think it's what Buckley wanted but it explains Krauthammer and Brooks and Kristol and the Bushes and Paul Ryan and National Review and Standard and Spectator etc.....and open borders

we are racists for wanting illegal little brown Indians kept out or let in only in small amounts

Folks the GOP is the real problem.....just look at them now ..working harder against Trump than they ever did Obama

[Theophilus]

Folks the GOP is the real problem.

It's certainly true. But the reason why it's true is because it's chock-full of hypocritical, lying sinners, just like the church. And that goes for the rank-and-file as well as the amazingly corrupt leaders.

Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

I remind myself of that old joke: If I ever find the perfect church, I had better not join it.

[Ohioan]

wardaddy: I think the problem is largely what I identify in the current feature at my Truth Based Logic Conservative Resource Center: What Drives The Trump Haters, which connects the whole PC nonsense to the world government seekers' efforts to redirect American education & media in the middle of the last century. (I have been fighting that effort for 65 years.)

Buckley, in my estimation, severely compromised his outlook on some issues, to remain the "respectable conservative" in the New York social sets. (it is also possible that he was blackmailed in effect for having employed George Lincoln Rockwell, prior to Rockwell forming the American Nazi Party. That is just a supposition on my part; but having studied the Left in some of their own lairs, I am virtually certain that some of them would have tried to play that card in certain circles. And there were other similar possibilities.)

[Pelham]

One of the best, if not the best, historians of the conservative movement is the great Paul Gottfried.

That rarest of birds, the Jewish paleocon.

Not all that well known because neos did their best to see that he has been marginalized along with most other paleos. But well worth reading whenever possible.

Another reason Gottfried gets overlooked is that one of his main forums has been the dreaded White Deer site, forbidden to be linked to FR for reasons not all that clear.