| Thank you for that honesty Warren! And how many “Conservatives” stood up to oppose such fascist ideas? Not a f***ing one, I would wager, as half the other Conservatives in the room were Straussian/Schmittian, as is the usual case, like Anton, if not more, and the remainder wouldn’t know a Straussian/Schmittian if they were run over by a truck driven by the ghosts of Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, with Willmoore Kendall sitting on the middle hump (I know my semi- trucks, having been an actual “Main Street,” small town, denizen; not a “Private Equity” industry Schmittian/Straussian like The American Conservative favorite Peter Thiel, and his "stable” of fellow Carl Schmitt devotees. Which for those of you who don’t know, Carl Schmitt was a fascist, before, during, and after he joined the Nazi Party. Which I implacably and inalterably oppose, even more so when I found out how influential he was with the “National Security State” with my work related to Guantanamo and appearing before Conservative Judges who were obviously in full agreement with Schmitt (see attached file). I await your answer for how many “traditionalists/Libertarians” denounced Anton for his fascism Warren? Or even just left, but at least you had the courage to not stand by on hearing a fascist speaker before you. A very rare commodity amongst conservatives, I know. I was the only person who denounced alt-rightist Richard Spencer and his Schmitt worshipping friend at a H.L. Mencken Society meeting. And but for liking him personally, I would have also denounced Paul Gottfreid for putting such a program on, which I’d attended out of curiosity as I knew they would be speaking on Schmitt. And, I wanted to tell Gottfried his book on Schmitt was just a “soft-soap job,” with no redeeming value. But after hearing the fascist Spencer, I got up, went to the mic, denounced them, and then I walked out. Claes Ryn is my witness, who then told me of a meeting coming up of the Academy of Philosophy & Letters, which, when seeing noted Straussian and Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn there, I knew it was equally or more irredeemable than Gottfried’s “Conservative” group. In the binary conditioned thinking we are limited to, I can hear someone say, “but look at the Democrats and the war in Ukraine.” A war begun before Trump, way before Trump, but escalated by Trump with a massive offensive designed military buildup for use against all of China, Russia and Iran, which only a total idiot wouldn’t know was being built for war. Which Democratic Party Conservatives had on hand when they continued Trump’s policies and Russia finally realized we weren’t kidding about being the “military rulers of the world," with the millions of humans we’ve killed just since we “kicked the Vietnam Syndrome!” (Hallelujah! But what I’ve seen since becoming more aware of the “genealogy” (a political theory term, in the field of “History of Ideas) of Conservatism, having once been stupid too in seeing “Conservatism” as monolithic, and not as competing “political theorists” (see "The Benevolent Sage of Mecosta” in which Willmoore Kendal viciously (ideologically) attacks Russell Kirk as one example of that. Especially over the last 5 years or so, I’ve seen of the “defensiveness” of “Conservatives,” where a person is not supposed to “dissect” and/or analyze “distinctive” modes of conservative thought, or even point them out. Nor to recall the extreme animosities that existed with Willmoore Kendall and his fellow NR CIA colleagues against most of their fellow Conservatives not named Leo Strauss. And against Eisenhower! Instead, they resemble a herd of cattle, standing asses to asses in a circle, in defense against any ideas which could disrupt the “consensus” which Kendall and Joe McCarthy shouted was necessary to society. Like Carl Schmitt had. And unlike the last and only conservative I retain respect for, Bruce Fein. Who by today’s “Trumpist” standards, is a “RINO,” as he is an ardent defender of the First Amendment, as someone virtually did here recently. With Bruce too necessarily opposed to the kind of anti-constitutional fanatic who wrote the following, with the exception of "Guantanamo at 10,” a stand-up Constitutionalist :-): |
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