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There is such a thing as elite opinion that is not the same as popular opinion.”
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Virtually every leftist program was later adopted and championed by National Review after a couple of decades: the Civil Rights Act; Social Security; semi-open borders, to name a few. Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
the claim that comparatively “retarded” Americans should not have their views heard in political discourse is still precisely how both progressives and National Review conservatives regard populists to this day.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
“The Republican party,” he wrote, “must be known as a progressive organization or it is sunk. I believe that so emphatically that I think that far from appeasing or reasoning with the dyed-in-the-wool reactionary fringe, we should completely ignore it and when necessary, repudiate it.”
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
