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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 22, 2024 20:35:19 GMT -5
"When the conservative editor and intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr., ran for mayor of New York in 1965, he may have been the first conservative to endorse affirmative action, or, as he called it, “the kind of special treatment [of African Americans] that might make up for centuries of oppression.” He also promised to crack down on labor unions that discriminated against minorities, a cause even his liberal opponents were unwilling to embrace. Buckley pointed out the inherent unfairness in the administration of drug laws and in judicial sentencing. He also advanced a welfare “reform” plan whose major components were job training, education and daycare.
In 1969, in his capacity as founding editor of National Review, launched a decade and a half earlier as a “conservative weekly journal of opinion” that stood in opposition to the dominant liberal ethos of the time, Buckley toured African-American neighborhoods in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Atlanta organized by the Urban League and afterward singled out for special praise “community organizers” who were working “in straightforward social work in the ghettos.” In an article in Look magazine months later, Buckley anticipated that the United States could well elect an African-American president within a decade, and that this milestone would confer the same reassurance and social distinction upon African Americans that Roman Catholics had felt upon the election of John F. Kennedy. That, he said, would be “welcome tonic” for the American soul.
This Buckley, who emerged in the years after 1965, bore little resemblance to the one who, eight years earlier in 1957, had penned an editorial he titled “Why the South Must Prevail”—in which he declared the white race the more “advanced” race and, as such, the most fit to govern. What happened in those eight years that sparked this change in attitude and policy advocacy on Buckley’s part? How did a man who later proclaimed his greatest legacy was keeping the conservative movement free of bigots, kooks and anti-Semites move past a nakedly racist editorial like that?"www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/13/william-f-buckley-civil-rights-215129/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 22, 2024 20:41:06 GMT -5
"When the conservative editor and intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr., ran for mayor of New York in 1965, he may have been the first conservative to endorse affirmative action, or, as he called it, “the kind of special treatment [of African Americans] that might make up for centuries of oppression.” He also promised to crack down on labor unions that discriminated against minorities, a cause even his liberal opponents were unwilling to embrace. Buckley pointed out the inherent unfairness in the administration of drug laws and in judicial sentencing. He also advanced a welfare “reform” plan whose major components were job training, education and daycare.
In 1969, in his capacity as founding editor of National Review, launched a decade and a half earlier as a “conservative weekly journal of opinion” that stood in opposition to the dominant liberal ethos of the time, Buckley toured African-American neighborhoods in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Atlanta organized by the Urban League and afterward singled out for special praise “community organizers” who were working “in straightforward social work in the ghettos.” In an article in Look magazine months later, Buckley anticipated that the United States could well elect an African-American president within a decade, and that this milestone would confer the same reassurance and social distinction upon African Americans that Roman Catholics had felt upon the election of John F. Kennedy. That, he said, would be “welcome tonic” for the American soul.
This Buckley, who emerged in the years after 1965, bore little resemblance to the one who, eight years earlier in 1957, had penned an editorial he titled “Why the South Must Prevail”—in which he declared the white race the more “advanced” race and, as such, the most fit to govern. What happened in those eight years that sparked this change in attitude and policy advocacy on Buckley’s part? How did a man who later proclaimed his greatest legacy was keeping the conservative movement free of bigots, kooks and anti-Semites move past a nakedly racist editorial like that?"www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/13/william-f-buckley-civil-rights-215129/ "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -- Maya Angelou Donald Trump is getting headlines for saying immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." But for months the GOP race for president has been shadowed by xenophobia, as some candidates or those backing them have embraced racist and white nationalist themes. Why it matters: It's partly a reflection of how Trump has moved Republican politics toward the harder-edged, "us vs. them" view that now dominates the GOP's base and is reshaping its membership in Congress. www.axios.com/2023/12/21/trump-racism-gop-campaign-2024For a Republican coalition that still relies predominantly on white voters, hearing nonwhite GOP candidates dismiss racism offers “acquittal and absolution,” says Robert P. Jones, the founder and president of the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan group that studies American attitudes toward race and culture. Such comments from figures like Scott and Haley, he told me, provide “permission” for other Republicans “to not even have to ask the questions” about whether systemic discrimination still shapes U.S. society. Likewise, Michael Steele, the Black former chairman of the Republican National Committee, told me he believes that Scott is expressing such an absolutist rejection of racism—despite Scott’s acknowledgment that he has faced racial profiling in his own life—because he recognizes that that assertion is what the GOP’s mainly white electorate wants to hear. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/nikki-haley-tim-scott-2024-election-racial-inequity/674511/Republicans are increasingly coalescing around former President Trump, even as the likely GOP presidential nominee continues to use racist and incendiary language. From circulating baseless conspiracies about his presidential rivals to demonizing immigrants — Trump’s rhetoric has reshaped the party’s base. www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-deploys-racist-tactics-as-biden-rematch-appears-likelyThe tragedy of Buckley is that he did personally evolve on questions of Jim Crow. The civil rights movement and the white violence that met it did help Buckley genuinely evolve. He came around to support federal enforcement of civil rights laws, the rights of Black people to vote, and even affirmative action to right years of injustice. He attacked the John Birch Society and warred with anti-Semites. When Kilpatrick eventually gave up defending segregation, Buckley cheered him. But like so many too-clever operatives before him and since, the forces he empowered became too powerful for him and his magazine. Buckley may have thought he was exploiting the Citizens Council for his own movement’s gain, but it worked the other way around. Today, it’s unfolding as farce. In January 2016, National Review dedicated an entire issue to taking down Trump, making a full-throated conservative case against him. theintercept.com/2020/07/05/national-review-william-buckley-racism/
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 22, 2024 21:48:00 GMT -5
Buckley died in early 2008, or when Trump was still an itinerant TV host.
Since WFB's Tory sensibilities expected the wealthy to exert a form of noblesse oblige in politics, he would have eviscerated candidate Trump as a charlatan and thus would have been relegated out of the party, much as George Will was.
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Post by tashoya on Apr 22, 2024 23:31:13 GMT -5
What party?
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 23, 2024 3:18:00 GMT -5
Buckley died in early 2008, or when Trump was still an itinerant TV host. Since WFB's Tory sensibilities expected the wealthy to exert a form of noblesse oblige in politics, he would have eviscerated candidate Trump as a charlatan and thus would have been relegated out of the party, much as George Will was. "Buckley may have thought he was exploiting the Citizens Council for his own movement’s gain, but it worked the other way around." WFB was among some of those in your party (now cult) who injected the cancer of racism into the party/cult long before Nixon's Southern Strategy. It has now metastasized and you can't deny the racism of the MAGA GOP regardless of whether WFB would be tossed out by the MAGA GOP now. For decades, conservatives and liberals have praised Buckley for those two (and subsequent) editorials. They celebrated him as a model of sobriety and rationality for panning the Birch Society and expunging the far-right fringe from conservative ranks. Over the past decade, however, the legend has come under scrutiny. Historians now argue that Buckley’s vaunted excommunication of the fringe is a myth. They are not impressed by his supposedly Solomonic decision to repudiate the low-hanging fruit of Welch and his conspiracy theories while sparing the society’s rank and file. By welcoming them into the fold both before and after National Review’s supposed break with the society, Buckley and his magazine continued to benefit from Birchers’ political activism, funding, and engagement. At the same time, Buckley’s fence-walking was a taste of what was to come — decades of on-again, off-again efforts, halting and inconsistent, at handling the fringe. To their credit, Buckley’s intellectual and political successors sometimes denounced conspiracy theorists, racists and isolationists, such as when George H.W. Bush condemned KKK grand wizard and GOP gubernatorial candidate David Duke in 1991, or when his son, George W. Bush, rejected far-right conspiracy theories alleging that he was establishing a North American Union with Mexico and Canada modeled on the European Union. Yet conservative leaders of various stripes wanted the fringe’s energy, money and votes — and especially at campaign time, they courted the far right. These alliances, punctuated by mutual animus, hark back to the core of Buckley’s dilemma — one that he never resolved, with consequences that reverberated on January 6. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/31/buckley-john-birch-society-00087893www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/07/buckley-conservatives-and-race/4917/
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 4:01:04 GMT -5
Buckley died in early 2008, or when Trump was still an itinerant TV host. Since WFB's Tory sensibilities expected the wealthy to exert a form of noblesse oblige in politics, he would have eviscerated candidate Trump as a charlatan and thus would have been relegated out of the party, much as George Will was. Sounds like thebin, no? Welcome to the fight.
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 24, 2024 8:37:08 GMT -5
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 24, 2024 10:43:02 GMT -5
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Post by CTHoya08 on Apr 24, 2024 11:11:17 GMT -5
I hope that's true, but I wonder how many would truly never vote for Trump in this election, and how many are still going to vote for him but are using these primaries as their last chance to vent frustration that he's their nominee. I'm sure that some percentage of the people still voting for Haley will stay home, vote third party (effectively staying home), or cross party lines to vote for Biden. But I imagine that a good chunk of them will pull the lever for the name with (R) next to it no matter what, and are just using these primaries to signal their annoyance that that name happens to be Trump again. (I suspect the same is true of some of the people casting protest votes in the Democratic primaries.)
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 24, 2024 11:21:06 GMT -5
I hope that's true, but I wonder how many would truly never vote for Trump in this election, and how many are still going to vote for him but are using these primaries as their last chance to vent frustration that he's their nominee. I'm sure that some percentage of the people still voting for Haley will stay home, vote third party (effectively staying home), or cross party lines to vote for Biden. But I imagine that a good chunk of them will pull the lever for the name with (R) next to it no matter what, and are just using these primaries to signal their annoyance that that name happens to be Trump again. (I suspect the same is true of some of the people casting protest votes in the Democratic primaries.) Agree. Interesting data point but who knows how it translates in November?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 20:13:42 GMT -5
I hope that's true, but I wonder how many would truly never vote for Trump in this election, and how many are still going to vote for him but are using these primaries as their last chance to vent frustration that he's their nominee. I'm sure that some percentage of the people still voting for Haley will stay home, vote third party (effectively staying home), or cross party lines to vote for Biden. But I imagine that a good chunk of them will pull the lever for the name with (R) next to it no matter what, and are just using these primaries to signal their annoyance that that name happens to be Trump again. (I suspect the same is true of some of the people casting protest votes in the Democratic primaries.) I didn't want to give this a "like," but I fear it's exactly right.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 25, 2024 5:34:43 GMT -5
Given MAGA GOPers limited cognitive abilities and intellectual capabilities, this essay, adapted from Kagan's book, will most certainly pass over their racist, xenophobic and authoritarian heads. Their most likely response, is it's TLDNR. Morons. Opinion We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it? For some time, it was possible to believe that many voters could not see the threat Donald Trump poses to America’s liberal democracy, and many still profess not to see it. But now, a little more than six months from Election Day, it’s hard to believe they don’t. The warning signs are clear enough. Trump himself offers a new reason for concern almost every day. People may choose to ignore the warnings or persuade themselves not to worry, but they can see what we all see, and that should be enough. How to explain their willingness to support Trump despite the risk he poses to our system of government? The answer is not rapidly changing technology, widening inequality, unsuccessful foreign policies or unrest on university campuses but something much deeper and more fundamental. It is what the Founders worried about and Abraham Lincoln warned about: a decline in what they called public virtue. They feared it would be hard to sustain popular support for the revolutionary liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence, and they worried that the virtuous love of liberty and equality would in time give way to narrow, selfish interest. Although James Madison and his colleagues hoped to establish a government on the solid foundation of self-interest, even Madison acknowledged that no government by the people could be sustained if the people themselves did not have sufficient dedication to the liberal ideals of the Declaration. The people had to love liberty, not just for themselves but as an abstract ideal for all humans. For two centuries, many White Americans have felt under siege by the Founders’ liberalism. They have been defeated in war and suppressed by threats of force, but more than that, they have been continually oppressed by a system designed by the Founders to preserve and strengthen liberalism against competing beliefs and hierarchies. Since World War II, the courts and the political system have pursued the Founders’ liberal goals with greater and greater fidelity, ending official segregation, driving religion from public schools, recognizing and defending the rights of women and minorities hitherto deprived of their “natural rights” because of religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination. The hegemony of liberalism has expanded, just as Lincoln hoped it would, “constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of colors everywhere.” Anti-liberal political scientist Patrick Deneen calls it “liberal totalitarianism,” and, apart from the hyperbole, he is right that liberalism has been steadily deepening and expanding under presidents of both parties since the 1940s. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:42:39 GMT -5
Given MAGA GOPers limited cognitive abilities and intellectual capabilities, this essay, adapted from Kagan's book, will most certainly pass over their racist, xenophobic and authoritarian heads. Their most likely response, is it's TLDNR. Morons. Opinion We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it? For some time, it was possible to believe that many voters could not see the threat Donald Trump poses to America’s liberal democracy, and many still profess not to see it. But now, a little more than six months from Election Day, it’s hard to believe they don’t. The warning signs are clear enough. Trump himself offers a new reason for concern almost every day. People may choose to ignore the warnings or persuade themselves not to worry, but they can see what we all see, and that should be enough. How to explain their willingness to support Trump despite the risk he poses to our system of government? The answer is not rapidly changing technology, widening inequality, unsuccessful foreign policies or unrest on university campuses but something much deeper and more fundamental. It is what the Founders worried about and Abraham Lincoln warned about: a decline in what they called public virtue. They feared it would be hard to sustain popular support for the revolutionary liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence, and they worried that the virtuous love of liberty and equality would in time give way to narrow, selfish interest. Although James Madison and his colleagues hoped to establish a government on the solid foundation of self-interest, even Madison acknowledged that no government by the people could be sustained if the people themselves did not have sufficient dedication to the liberal ideals of the Declaration. The people had to love liberty, not just for themselves but as an abstract ideal for all humans. For two centuries, many White Americans have felt under siege by the Founders’ liberalism. They have been defeated in war and suppressed by threats of force, but more than that, they have been continually oppressed by a system designed by the Founders to preserve and strengthen liberalism against competing beliefs and hierarchies. Since World War II, the courts and the political system have pursued the Founders’ liberal goals with greater and greater fidelity, ending official segregation, driving religion from public schools, recognizing and defending the rights of women and minorities hitherto deprived of their “natural rights” because of religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination. The hegemony of liberalism has expanded, just as Lincoln hoped it would, “constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of colors everywhere.” Anti-liberal political scientist Patrick Deneen calls it “liberal totalitarianism,” and, apart from the hyperbole, he is right that liberalism has been steadily deepening and expanding under presidents of both parties since the 1940s. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/About face, says the Supreme Court.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 27, 2024 4:20:13 GMT -5
MAGA GOP snowflakes. Scared of a little First Amendment activity? GOP urges Secret Service to move protesters from park near convention arena City officials said that activist groups, some Republicans and individual citizens have requested to speak at the designated protest site. Protesters could sue the city if they are pushed too far away from the arena where the convention is being held. Former president Donald Trump has long abhorred protesters and is accustomed to fawning crowds. When protesters enter his rallies and began chanting, they are usually quickly dragged out as the crowd cheers. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/26/republican-national-convention-protests-milwaukee/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 27, 2024 10:11:49 GMT -5
We can only hope that the MAGA GOP cult meets the same electoral fate. But for the racist Electoral College, America's election will likely be close but it is instructive to remember that the Democrats have won the popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 Presidential elections. Britain’s Conservative Party, like the U.S. Republican Party, is in turmoil LONDON — Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that has come with astonishing swiftness. The decline and fall of the Conservatives is the story of a political party that has become exhausted and inward-looking after more than a decade in power. Not unlike the Republican Party in the United States, it is riven by factionalism, stained by scandal and judged by many voters as incapable of dealing with the country’s problems — all amplified by a whipsawing series of leadership changes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/28/britain-conservative-party-turmoil-analysis/Democrats won the popular vote in this year’s presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone. apnews.com/article/democrats-popular-vote-win-d6331f7e8b51d52582bb2d60e2a007ec
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 27, 2024 21:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 28, 2024 1:18:41 GMT -5
In Manhattan, facing nearly three dozen felonies, Donald Trump’s thin veneer of competence is being stripped away by a guy named Pecker and Trump’s increasingly apparent mental decline. He is on a downward spiral caused by dementia, depression and derision. Speaking on Chip Franklin’s podcast, “Really Political,” Dr. John Gartner, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, reminded us this week that we are currently seeing “The best Donald Trump – today.” In other words, he’s never going to be as good as he was the day before — no matter how bad that is. Dr. Gartner believes it is Trump who is suffering from a precipitous decline in mental health, and he’s never going to get better. With each day the former president’s mental acumen slips further and soon the rate of acceleration of mental decline will take Trump to a “mental cliff.” Once he falls off, watch out. Should Trump see a second term, Dr. Gartner compared it, potentially, to a “Weekend at Bernie’s.” www.salon.com/2024/04/25/maga-begins-to-panic-may-not-make-it-to-the-ballot/
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 28, 2024 8:24:39 GMT -5
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