In his excellent book review, the great David Gordon dissects and demolishes a recent turgid ideological defense of elitist credentialed managerial class anti-populism posing as “conservatism.” Readers will savor his insightful bamboozling exposé’ of this establishmentarian tract attempting to describe and distort this fraudulent history. The author comes from that disgusting, discredited neocon clique of the Kristols, Kagans (including the harridan shrew Victoria Nuland), lusting after invasive war and regime change aggrandizement.
Evidently this book leaves out this crucial backstory to his fraudulent narrative:
In the 1930s and 1940s there was the non-interventionist Old Right of libertarians and nationalists opposed to the welfare-warfare State’s domestic and foreign policies of FDR’s New Deal and Harry Truman’s Fair Deal. They believed in a constitutionally limited and decentralized federal republic, peace and diplomacy not war and empire. The populist grassroots masses of the Old Right were opposed in several GOP presidential elections (1936-1952) by the anglophile northeastern seaboard establishment forces within the nexus of the Morgan and Rockefeller Wall Street financial blocs. The National Security State believed this Old Right must be marginalized and destroyed. This process began during World War II, and accelerated with the virulent covert action insurgency against Old Right figurehead Senator Robert Taft by the elite establishment Eisenhower forces led by the ardent internationalist patrician, Boston Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge, at the 1952 GOP presidential convention, and continued unabated up to the foundation of National Review.
CIA counterfeit conservative William F. Buckley Jr. was a student at Yale University (Skull and Bones 1950) where he served as shill and informant for J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. One of Buckley’s Yale professors, former Trotskyist communist Willmoore Kendall (formerly of the OSS and later consultant to the CIA) was a recruiter of talent for the newly created Agency. Kendall recruited Buckley in 1951.
Kendall introduced him to former Trotskyist communist James Burnham (also formerly of the OSS), and head of the Political and Psychological Warfare division of the Office of Policy Coordination of the Central Intelligence Agency, He was later to actively work on the CIA coup d’etat against Mossadegh in Iran.
Burnham first introduced Buckley to agent E. Howard Hunt in his Washington, D. C. apartment. Buckley then served with Hunt in Mexico where Hunt was chief of station and Buckley’s control officer. Hunt later figured as a principal in the Watergate Scandal that brought down Richard Nixon.
Buckley, with intelligence community colleagues James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, and William J. Casey, founded National Review magazine, which became the premier publication of the CIA’s synthetic “Conservative movement” replacing the non-interventionist Old Right coalition of Americans opposed to the corporate welfare-warfare state of Roosevelt and Truman. One of the principal enemies and opponents of Buckley and the NR cabal in these sinister endeavors was Murray Rothbard.
What most Americans mistakenly regard today as the “Conservative movement” has undergone many convoluted and dramatic transformations over the past sixty years. A major objective of National Review from its inception was to transform the American right wing from non-interventionism to an interventionist global warmongering (initially anti-Communist) movement, the entire effort was in essence a CIA operation. Since its founding National Review has made it a primary mission to champion the deep state infrastructure of the CIA and FBI in their covert and overt activities of projecting American imperial and domestic state power since 1955.
11:34 am on August 9, 2023
