Bill Buckley ostracized the John Birch Society, thus helping to establish the precedent of ousting the Deplorables (and his doing so has in fact been cited by Goldberg types as justification for removing us from the Republican Big Tent in any way feasible).
Buckley was brilliant and inimitable. He was also an occasionally insufferable intellectual snob. My Mensa Membership Mentality was never as impressed by him as I was told to be.
“He was also an occasionally insufferable intellectual snob.”
Occasionally? He was insufferable 99% of the time!