BLUF: "In Montgomery County, several teachers were suspended after making statements either critical of Israel or in support of Palestinian rights."
They’re back, the McCarthyites, and in full swing, and with little wonder about that as they’ve been so celebrated of late by the Traditional Conservatives of Trumpism, to include DeSantisites, as fellow “New Rightists.” And in recent books on Conservatism, such as Andrew Bacevich’s telling choice of Kendall’s apologia of McCarthyism in the attached file from his book: "American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition.” Which is his celebration of those whom I unhesitatingly attribute to, in founding the Conservative Movement, "The Origins of American Fascism.” Thanks especially to being made aware of Willmoore Kendall by Traditional Conservatives in the Renaissance of his “political theory,” of uncompromising hostility toward any semblance of “Enlightenment Thought.” As Kendal and his “Sancho Panza,” George Carey, had for the Bill Of Rights in our actual Constitution, as against the “Thought Control Conservative's” preferred Philadelphia Constitution, pre-Bill of Rights of 1787. With Kendall a virtual co-author of William Buckley’s/Brent Bozell’s defense of McCarthyism as well, in the book pictured below, aimed not just at Communists, but more specifically, as Kendall made no secret of: Liberals! Such as at the time would have included William R. Polk, once of this email list. Given the open introduction and promotion of such fascist political theory as contained in Kendall’s (and Yoram Hazony’s; Kendall’s like-minded, anti-Enlightenment, anti-free speech, political theorist) anti-First Amendment career assaults, and the collective silence to them, I’ve no question anymore on how the “Conservative Revolution" of Germany triumphed, with so many German’s “Acquiescence by Silence.”
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Kendall, in Bacevich book.pdf
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McCarthyism's Call to Conformity.pdf
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Leo Strauss would be proud of the reach his friend Willmoore Kendall’s “ideas” have had, now put to use in defending Israel’s fascist’s genocide by suppressing anyone’s speech in criticizing them. To paraphrase: First they came for the campus protesters Where did it begin, its “Origins?” "In austere, starkly divisive remarks, President Trump on Thursday said he would create a commission to promote "patriotic education" and announced the creation of a grant to develop a "pro-American curriculum.” . . . "The president's remarks reflect a growing outcry among Republicans against recent moves to tell a more evenhanded version of the nation's history, including its early foundational reliance on slave labor and the longtime disenfranchisement of and systemic racism against racial minorities. "In particular, Republicans have taken offense to The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning "1619 Project," which detailed the country's history from when the first enslaved Africans were brought to America's shores. . . . "Following his remarks, the phrases "Trump Youth" and "Hitler Youth" trended on Twitter, with some likening the president's new education project to the indoctrination of young people in Nazi Germany.” More correctly, as we can see by American Republican Likudniks, “Ben-Gvir Youth” being the preferred output of our schools! |
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