Conservatives now appeasing right-wing crackpots rather than deflating them
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Oct 25, 2017
3 minutes
William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review (where I work), once confessed in private, "I wish to hell I could attack them without pleasing people I can't stand to please."
By "them" he meant the members of the conspiracy-mongering, anti-Communist, anti-United Nations, anti-civil rights John Birch Society (named after a Christian missionary who was killed in 1945 by Communist forces, making Birch the first American casualty in the Cold War). The
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