>Buckley felt that outlandish stances discredited conservatism by making it seem “ridiculous and pathological,” as he wrote to a supporter who had criticized his editorial. They allowed the media to tar all conservatives as extremists, and turned off young people. He insisted that conservatism had to expand “by bringing into our ranks those people who are, at the moment, on our immediate left—the moderate, wishy-washy conservatives” who comprised the majority of the Republican Party. “If they think they are being asked to join a movement whose leadership believes the drivel of Robert Welch,” he warned, “they will pass by crackpot alley, and will not pause until they feel the embrace of those way over on the other side, the Liberals.” Buckley consistently maintained that conservatism was the “politics of reality.”
All of the above is 100% fucking true. One look at Any Forums or the dissident right in general proves it. Ask yourselves if you think sane normal people will support cheering for mass shooters for shooting children or openly supporting US adversaries like Russia and China / various dictatorships in general. Even well meaning lunatics attached to Trump like Mike Lindell or Giuliani are political toxic waste and everyone knows it.
The dissident right and the MAGA coalition is the biggest gift to the left in generations, because they turn off non insane people from voting GOP and into the 'waiting arms of the democrats'. That is why Biden calls the GOP the 'MAGA party' now, because he knows how much it damages them.
And what has "le reasonable center" done for me lately?
Camden Garcia
Joe Sobran got the best of Buckley
Colton Nguyen
What has le unreasonable fringe done for you? If you want to win then you need to be le reasonable center. Look at the threads since this mass shooting for further proof. I think it's funny how much Any Forums pretends to care about kids in school being indoctrinated but actively cheers for kids being murdered in school.
Lincoln Fisher
Buckley was an unironic Skull and Bones satanist. He's a big part of the reason conservatives never conserved anything.
Aiden Taylor
>The dissident right and the MAGA coalition is the biggest gift to the left in generations This is an asinine statement because without the Dissident Right and the MAGA movement more broadly, there is no Right-wing in America. You just want the Right to continue losing forever. Based. Sobran was a Chad who knew the score.
Kayden Thompson
Buckley was a Jew funded and controlled traitor, and Reagan (the first Buckleyite President) was pure shitscum.
Cameron Phillips
Win what? The elections are rigged either with two controlled opposition actors as non choices or flat out voter fraud. You're not getting the guns, glowie.
Isaac Butler
>dude just let us keep implementing neoliberal economics that sold you jobs off to China and Mexico, the mass importation of foreign scabs for the few jobs that remain, and do absolutely nothing to combat the social clown world and anti-white agitprop leftists disseminate! We can't possibly win otherwise! "No!"
>I think it's funny how much Any Forums pretends to care about kids in school being indoctrinated but actively cheers for kids being murdered in school.
The feds corrupted both the schools with cultural Marxism and groomed the shooter, dumb glowie faggot.
Isaac Scott
>without the Dissident Right and the MAGA movement more broadly, there is no Right-wing in America. If that was true then the right is completely fucked. > the Right to continue losing forever. For all the talk about how wonderful the dissident right is what have you got to show for it in terms of results? You can't claim to be on the side of the majority while actively hating about 90% of the population for various reasons.
The MAGA right is worse than Reagan because it combines the worst qualities of Reaganism without any of the positive ones either. For example, mindless populist slogans. Reagan had that but he also had an effective cabinet. Trump did not have an effective cabinet, it was a revolving door with non stop infighting. The policies that people like about the Trump years were largely policies that would have been done under literally any GOP President, including people like !jeb! and Ted Cruz.
William Collins
So do insane violent leftist factions like BLM and Antifa not balance that out? Tons of people who were centrists or even liberal became far right directly because of their actions, and there are a lot more of them doing much worse shit than their right wing counterparts.
Kevin Thomas
>sane normal people LOL sane people don't want nuclear annihilation. Hang yourself, NATOkike. You will never be great.
Carson Thomas
your closetgay midwit pseud is dead, and so is his ideology. why don't you join him memeflaggot?
Asher Martinez
In other words, it's the media telling normies what to think that's the actual problem, not what right wing "extremists" are up to, and we all know what (((that's))) all about
Andrew Green
No one listens to that fag, retard, give me Rush Limbaugh over Buckley any day, don’t forget Trump was friends with Limbaugh and agreed with his opinions, and Trump won 2016 and 2020 and he’s going to beat the shit out of Brandon in 2024, because Brandon’s election stealing days are OVER
Julian Lee
>defends a jew puppet traitor like Buckley >argues like a jew time to jettison this garbage dump of a thread
The problem with the center right is that after bush the younger it has discredited itself with endless war and economic collapse. Another thing is its lack of action in the culture war against the left who has eaten the rights lunch for 60 years now driving deeper and deeper into a degenerate world. And another thing, regan was an asshole who legalized spics by the millions and nixon sold out the working man by outsourcing everything to china.
What im saying is the center right has had it coming for years and it got its face smashed in in 2016
>For all the talk about how wonderful the dissident right is what have you got to show for it in terms of results? The beautiful thing about anarchocapitalism is your opponents do all the work for you. The American state is thisclose to fiscal ruin >You can't claim to be on the side of the majority while actively hating about 90% of the population for various reasons. I don't hate anybody, nice straw man though.
Landon Hernandez
You seem to be under the impression that people on pol know or care about politics, beyond memes and entertainment news. Nobody here knows or cares what you’re talking about. They just want to vent and fantasize. Any attempt to discuss reality is pointless. See: “everyone I don’t like works for the FBI”, or “just wait you’ll see there will be a fascist revolution” etc. this board is for people who don’t want to, or aren’t capable of, having a normal, informed conversation about politics
