First, Sauron was simply a misunderstood figure. If he had just been given a soccer trophy or two for showing up, his thirst for dominating all creatures of Middle Earth, and wanting to wipe out mankind, would never had happened.
But I digress. My writing for the Freemen News, and for my own podcast often has a very clear target; leftist historians who use history not as the narrative of humanities past, but rather as a genre to be warped and twisted for political expediency, or to simply garner attention. And attention is is the social media coin of the realm regardless how disgusting the narrative. So far Carlson, Mission Accomplished. I am talking about him.
The likes of Howard Zinn, James Loewen and Nikole Hannah Jones being prominent practitioners of using history for far leftist positions. But here we have Ben, and myself, having to spend our time and resources not on contending with the left, but on right wing kookery.
And in my research I found the spider in the web of much of these ills. Long before Nazi apologist Cooper we have similar anti Churchillian comments from Pat Buchanan in two books. The first shows Buchanan's latent anti Semitism and the 2nd teed up Cooper's delusions.
And not just in history. Buchanan was once a foremost anti communist but when the Soviet Union fell something in him snapped. He became the consummate anti Reagan on the right. Isolationism, protectionism, American equivalency, celebration of dictators. If Vance had a playbook the initials PB would be stenciled on the cover.
A lot of what’s happened on the right in the last nine years was sowed by Buchanan. Case in point, The American Conservative - hotbed of Trumpism and postliberalism - was founded by him in 2007. Buchanan was of course friends with Trump and a fellow Reform Party guy.
But to be honest I don’t think Buchanan was nearly as bad as other paleocons who were far more anti-American. Sam Francis was probably actually a racist antisemite, whereas I think Buchanan just sounded like one sometimes. Lew Rockwell, the original paleolibertarian (although Ron Paul was pretty racist too) was a big figure. A few others, too. John Mearshimer etc.
Jonah Goldberg says Buchanan used to be a really patriotic and decent guy (he was friends with the Goldberg family and might have been Jonah’s godfather). But he was really opposed to Israel and to American foreign policy post-Nixon and he kept getting pushed further from the mainstream, while all the weirdos and cranks and outright racists were loving him and saying great things about him. That dynamic may have continued to push him deeper into anti-Americanism.
We can blame Buchanan for at least mainstreaming this stuff and, by extension, blame all the talk radio jockeys for channeling Buchanan as they became the gatekeepers of conservatism.
First, Sauron was simply a misunderstood figure. If he had just been given a soccer trophy or two for showing up, his thirst for dominating all creatures of Middle Earth, and wanting to wipe out mankind, would never had happened.
But I digress. My writing for the Freemen News, and for my own podcast often has a very clear target; leftist historians who use history not as the narrative of humanities past, but rather as a genre to be warped and twisted for political expediency, or to simply garner attention. And attention is is the social media coin of the realm regardless how disgusting the narrative. So far Carlson, Mission Accomplished. I am talking about him.
The likes of Howard Zinn, James Loewen and Nikole Hannah Jones being prominent practitioners of using history for far leftist positions. But here we have Ben, and myself, having to spend our time and resources not on contending with the left, but on right wing kookery.
And in my research I found the spider in the web of much of these ills. Long before Nazi apologist Cooper we have similar anti Churchillian comments from Pat Buchanan in two books. The first shows Buchanan's latent anti Semitism and the 2nd teed up Cooper's delusions.
And not just in history. Buchanan was once a foremost anti communist but when the Soviet Union fell something in him snapped. He became the consummate anti Reagan on the right. Isolationism, protectionism, American equivalency, celebration of dictators. If Vance had a playbook the initials PB would be stenciled on the cover.
A lot of what’s happened on the right in the last nine years was sowed by Buchanan. Case in point, The American Conservative - hotbed of Trumpism and postliberalism - was founded by him in 2007. Buchanan was of course friends with Trump and a fellow Reform Party guy.
But to be honest I don’t think Buchanan was nearly as bad as other paleocons who were far more anti-American. Sam Francis was probably actually a racist antisemite, whereas I think Buchanan just sounded like one sometimes. Lew Rockwell, the original paleolibertarian (although Ron Paul was pretty racist too) was a big figure. A few others, too. John Mearshimer etc.
Jonah Goldberg says Buchanan used to be a really patriotic and decent guy (he was friends with the Goldberg family and might have been Jonah’s godfather). But he was really opposed to Israel and to American foreign policy post-Nixon and he kept getting pushed further from the mainstream, while all the weirdos and cranks and outright racists were loving him and saying great things about him. That dynamic may have continued to push him deeper into anti-Americanism.
We can blame Buchanan for at least mainstreaming this stuff and, by extension, blame all the talk radio jockeys for channeling Buchanan as they became the gatekeepers of conservatism.