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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The continuity is why I don't take the complaints about "hijacking" seriously. What about Trump's positions would be anathema to, say, Bill Buckley?
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There is considerable overlap on social issues. Not much on economics. Buckley would have agreed with reining in the Chinese, but I don't recall much in his writing that was generally anti-free trade.
And there is considerable distance between Trumpism and Buckley conservatism in terms of expression. Buckley was classist. (He may have said he'd rather be governed the names in the first few pages of a phone book than Harvard wonks, but he said that as a Yalie.) Trump is happy to give the trailer park a voice, to invite all of crazies and angries to the table. Buckley wanted to keep them in the closet, under control in the same fashion he sought to subjugate liberals. You might say this a thin distinction. I can see that argument. But I'd disagree. I'd say that distinction is what puts Trumpism more under the populist umbrella than the conservative umbrella.
