re: #1 The Ghost of a Flea

Along the lines of your concerns, today Yale uploaded a video in which the main presenter is one David Austin Walsh, and his book is Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right .

I’ve started the video after all the introductory fluff:

Rethinking the Fringe: Discussion on Taking America Back: Conservative Movement and the Far Right

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He makes the point that the “respectful Conservatism” of William F. Buckley still included the elements that we find so troubling today.

That is, even after Buckley tried to throw out the kooks, what remained inevitably is tied to what Donald Trump has brought to the fore.