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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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Buckley was classist, sure, but was also about as racist as they come and an advocate of the southern strategy to court racists in the Democratic party.
As a teen, I saw Buckley introduce Liddy once. Talk about inviting the crazies and angries to the podium.
