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This is going off on a tangent, but I'm glad you mentioned that conservatives were isolationist before World War II, and in fact they adamantly opposed involved any US involvement until Pearl Harbor. By contrast, it was the left that kept saying fascism and nazism were major threats that needed to be actively opposed. This is not only forgotten generally, but the opposite is assumed as those against bombing someone at every opportunity are denounced as the sort of people who would have said D-Day was too hard and given up. Buckley knew better, but his ideological heirs don't, and actively misinform the public in their pro-war propaganda.
