Notwithstanding Heritage Foundation and its President Kevin Robert’s and their chosen scribe, Christopher Miller, openly declaring how much more money will have to go for the “Common Defense” ("Common Plan” is what the German equivalent was called at Nuremberg, for their plan to “Wage Aggressive War,” and don’t blame me for that analogy, I didn’t refer to anyone as “Vermin.”), we get this kind of dissimulation:
WTF!!!: How the hell does the QI scribe get this? "But as a series of statements and articles compiled by John Isaacs of the Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation has shown, there are Republican members of Congress and Republican-friendly individuals and organizations outside of Congress who appear to be serious about seeking Pentagon spending reductions. Former Trump defense secretary Christopher Miller asserted that the Pentagon budget could be cut “in half” if the Pentagon moved to a “smaller, more nimble force.” Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation took to the pages of the American Conservative to call for long recommended cost saving measures like closing excess military bases and eliminating older, legacy weapons – measures that have been consistently blocked by Congress on a bipartisan basis. Unlike Roy and Jordan, Roberts seems to be in dead earnest: Doesn’t anyone at QI “critically read," even slightly beyond what is clearly intended as “Cognitive Campaign propaganda," by the Heritage Foundation, and the war profiteering Oligarchs behind them? Or feel any shame for propagating a “false narrative” of Heritage and Kevin Roberts as self-evident here, when compared to Project 2025, or at least it is self-evident if one doesn’t just write what Roberts tells one too, in my opinion, or working as a scribe for Heritage:
And these “ideas” are relevant for the reason that Andrew Bacevich included that defense of McCarthyism in a book entitled “American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition.” It represents the “American Conservative Intellectual Tradition,” which contemporary “Traditional Conservatives” are “Reclaiming!,"as evident in the TAC article below. A so-called “Tradition” which should be denounced, not exulted, as I’ve denounced it for years now on this list. And endured the denunciations from the supporters of such a “Tradition” for years here now, on the Committee for the Republic’s email list! With the zealous “nullification” of the Bill of Rights” and even more, the First Amendment; the almost life-long pursuit of the author of those two pieces, constituting the "thin edge of the wedge” of fascism.” Which I argue he represented as a “political theorist,” when one takes even the slighted glance at Kendall’s “political theory” and the fascists whom he exulted; Franco and Trujillo! And increasingly less “thin” when a former President’s speech is correctly interpreted as “and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
Which this “critical,” but too “gentle” of an article, begins to make clear:
But that’s one of only a very few even slightly "critical” articles about Kendall that one will find about him, with "Kendallian Kultists” overwhelmingly writing panegyrics to him, and equally sympathetic, to his fascist ideas of suppressing free speech, and any dissent to “consensus!” As a Conservative Kendall Kult cottage industry has sprung up, even before “Trump’s Arrival,” as can be seen here: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/03/willmoore-kendall-conservative-movement-daniel-mccarthy.html"Republished with gracious permission from The American Conservative (September 2013)”
Little wonder that the always warmongering, torture and Military Commissions supporting , Conservative Heritage Foundation would join in celebrating Kendall and his speech and dissent suppressing ideology (None Dare Call It Fascism!) as here:
Even more zealous in promoting Conservative Kendall Kultism (hereafter, KKK, as one might have guessed by now), can be found here, as with their support for “National Konservatism): "Labeled an “absolute majoritarian,” he believed 50 percent-plus-one of the people had the right to decide matters. Fifty percent-minus-one had the duty to obey. Thus, Athens had acted rightly to put Socrates to death. Any people, he suggested, needed the ability to perpetuate its values and to sanction those undermining them. . . . "Kendall disliked rights talk. Like the authors of The Federalist, he championed the original Constitution of 1787 unamended by the Bill of Rights. He knew rights could not be absolutes. If life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were actually inalienableand could not be taken away, then the United States could never have allowed the war, prisons, conscription, taxes, eminent domain, or traffic tickets. By putting certain subjects beyond the reach of politics, rights were also undemocratic, preempting the people from deciding issues they regarded as important, as with same-sex marriage today.”
Which if this is any kind of immutable “law of history,” all that awaits a formal "Declaration of U.S. Empire,” is for one American (in the Imperial sense) man or woman to amass so much personal loyalty of a sufficient percentage of the U.S. population to themselves, of the kind seen here:
to so declare. But why bother? All of Rome’s conquered peoples knew that the Roman Republic was an Empire; regardless of what the Romans might have called it. It was only the Romans who lied to themselves, post hoc, in distinguishing the “Roman Republic,” from the "Roman Empire,” with both having been the model of Empires forever after. With that same model as what Mussolini would model Fascism after, as the attached article on Machiavelli above shows so well.
Finally, as consistent with all that the Heritage Foundation has always advocated, especially under current President, Quincy Institute favorite Kevin Roberts, is this Heritage Foundation panegyric to the KKK celebrated Kendall:
To only slightly paraphrase Kendall: “A republic, Kendall said, cannot long thrive and succeed if it’s not prepared to defend and maintain its conception of justice, of the good, and of how its citizens should live together in what they affirm and in what they reject. Such a society will slowly come apart at the seams as its citizens increasingly look at one another and realize they have no core beliefs and principles that they hold in common. The result will be apathy, anger, and aggression as civilized argument becomes impossible to sustain because the public square is no longer upheld by a consensus about who the “We the people” really are. "This, ultimately, was the issue involved in the Joseph McCarthy hearings, Kendall reasoned. He detailed a series of arguments the McCarthy hearings engaged and the reasons why Americans favored and opposed him, but the key question, Kendall highlighted, that McCarthy raised was if an American could espouse Palestinian/Muslim/dissident beliefs regardless of whether those beliefs were capable of actually being implemented in American government. Senator McCarthy answered “no” to this question, and his opponents could not abide that answer. Palestinian/Muslim/dissident beliefs were illegal in word and deed, McCarthy and his followers held. And that inaugurated the nearly warlike drama that unfolded around him.” And as intended and effectuated in the TAC article below, of which the suppression of dissents by foreign students is only a trial run of the same for U.S. dissidents.
What law professor Scott Horton wrote of Leo Strauss back in 2006 applies equally to Strauss’s close friend and mentee Willmoore Kendall, as below. Though I am less generous to both Strauss and Kendall, recognizing more so in each, the “voice of Carl Schmitt,” a genuine fascist voice. Which I didn’t hesitate in articulating at a Princeton University conference on Schmitt I was invited to back in about 2o10 or 2011, having shared thoughts on Schmitt with some involved there, as I’d come to realize Schmitt was the “legal theorist” whose ideas were those underlying the “legal theory” of the Military Commissions.
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