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When I heard Buckley died, I thought of that TNR article from last year about the National Review Cruise, where crazed right wing lunatics spend thousands of dollars to hang out with the lunatics they read in the National Review. Buckley was the one who was pointing out how crazy guys like Podhoretz sound, yet the audience was cheering on Norm while calling Buckley old and senile.
I would say that it is sad that Buckley is the sane one in this movement, but then I remember he built the movement. Perhaps there is some justice in that he lived long enough to see the beginning of the end of his brand of conservatism, as it turned into little more than rampant paranoia, anti-intellectualism, warmongering, and the raw lust of power for power's sake.
RIP.
