The Last True Conservative Has Died


John Cole thinks Buckley’s “[p]robably heart-broken at what his party has become.” And he has a few choice words for the ones who are putting themselves forward as Buckley’s ideological heirs:

Watching the right-wing lunatics who destroyed conservatism wrapping themselves up in Buckley’s cold, dead embrace over the next few weeks will be disgusting. Start here, where K-Lo asserts she and the band of frothing brothers at NRO will continue Buckley’s “work”, and then read Malkin. And yes, you are reading Malkin correctly– she did just take the death of one of society’s most privileged members of the last century and use it to… declare that conservatives are victims.

These people are a disgrace and a sick joke.

What Malkin said:

I picked up my first issue of NR in college through the conservative student journalism samizdata. Reading the magazine in public was an act of defiance. Embracing the ideas within was an act of heresy. Mr. Buckley’s Firing Line appearances vaulted him into the mainstream cultural stratosphere, but the enduring power of his written words made him an intellectual supernova. He built the Right’s communications infrastructure and laid the groundwork for the New Media. He was an engaged and engaging Renaissance man who joined conservatism and libertarianism, fought statism, and served the Lord–with trademark good humor and joie de vivre.

Samizdata?

By comparing the National Review to samizdat, she shits on the tens of thousands of Soviet dissidents who, in some cases, were killed for what they read or wrote, in some cases spending years in a soviet prison camp and painstakingly recopying a book by hand onto a roll of toilet paper or the backing of cigarette packs, or on the cigarette papers themselves.

God I hate Malkin.

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One Comment on “The Last True Conservative Has Died”

  1. Chief Says:

    Malkin and others of her ilk suffer from arrested development. I think that it is perfectly acceptable, as part of the maturing process for a person to view some of the tenets of theoretical conservatism in a favorable light.

    Then as they continue to grow, they must continue their education by observing that practical conservatism ends up being a winner-take-all, law of the jungle environment.

    Unfortunately, a lot of people have too big a following to continue to grow.


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