re: 73 Three and Four-Year Olds, Hundreds of Children Under Six Sent to Transgender clinic

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Buckley's role in the moral deterioration of this country cannot be overstated. He led the crusade to purge the John Birch crowd from the conservative movement.

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Yep.

“National Review” has excommunicated the Birchers, the Randians, the Rothbardians, the Buchaninites, the Paulites and now the Trumpers from the ranks of “acceptable” conservatism. Buckley’s “National Review” — founded with CIA seed money — was indeed always a form of opposition control by the most corrupted elements in our nation’s national security apparatus.

That is the main enduring legacy of “National Review.” This is also why we see Mitt Romney kneeling for Black Marxists Lives.


Recommended reading:

Book Review: Willam F. Buckley, Jr. | The Pied Piper of the Establishment by John F. McManus….

….In 1990, when Bill Buckley stepped down after 35 years as National Review's editor, the Washington Post reported:

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In looking back, Buckley believes that the magazine's most important accomplishment was "the absolute exclusion of anything ... kooky" from the conservative movement. One of National Review's most notable battles was waged against the John Birch Society.

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Shameful and repugnant as Buckley's story is, the haunting question of why he chose to betray his heritage has still to be answered.

As McManus illustrates, the seductive path to fame opened before him. Choosing it meant he could almost certainly become a member of the top echelon of the power structure — celebrated, sought after, feted, honored, even idolized. This was Bill Buckley's fatal flaw — hubris, as the Greeks called it. Succumbing to conceit, he abandoned heritage, integrity, and honor itself. For all his brilliance, Buckley's lack of character has forevermore listed his name on the wrong side of the ledger of man's perpetual struggle for freedom.

Review by Jane H. Ingraham.