{"id":4279,"date":"2018-08-30T05:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T05:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/30\/paul-gottfried-versus-neocon-mythology\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T05:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T05:08:01","slug":"paul-gottfried-versus-neocon-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/30\/paul-gottfried-versus-neocon-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gottfried versus NeoCon Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Professor Gottfried goes on to examine several examples of these purges, correcting the errors of those who have distorted the record. For example, many have claimed that Buckley\u2019s 1965 denunciation of the John Birch Society was because the Birchers were guilty of anti-Semitism. This is simply slander. Whatever their other errors may have been, it wasn\u2019t anti-Semitism that led Buckley to denounce the JBS, but rather their opposition to LBJ\u2019s escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we know, both Williamson and Jonah Goldberg belong to the \u201cNever Trump\u201d cult that National Review<\/em> created in late 2015, and the anti-Trump fury of \u201cthe socially and professionally acceptable Right\u201d illustrates how jealously they regard their status as Gnostic archons of the movement, with the authority to banish anyone they dislike. Trump won the GOP nomination despite the opposition of the National Review <\/em>crowd and, while they predicted (and openly planned for the aftermath of) his defeat in November 2016, somehow Trump won again. We\u2019ve had to endure the butthurt whining of the Never-Trumpers ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do we explain this? A major factor is the vanity and careerist ambitions of the intelligentsia. Those whom Ace of Spades has dubbed \u201cthe Cruise Ship Wing of fake conservatism\u201d<\/a> (a reference to the travel-with-pundits deals sold to subscribers of National Review<\/em> and the Weekly Standard<\/em>) are careful to protect their \u201crespectable\u201d reputations, and they cannot enhance their reputations by admitting they were wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's right. The bow-tied boys have an inordinate concern with 'respectability' and the perquisites of high status. They want to be liked and accepted and taken seriously. They don't seem to realize that leftists will always loathe them no matter how many concessions they make.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: Professor Gottfried goes on to examine several examples of these purges, correcting the errors of those who have distorted the record. For example, many have claimed that Buckley\u2019s 1965 denunciation of the John Birch Society was because the Birchers were guilty of anti-Semitism. This is simply slander. Whatever their other errors may have been, … Continue reading “Paul Gottfried versus NeoCon Mythology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-right","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}