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The Communist Origin of the Modern Conservative Movement VI

 
 
Zardoz
 
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Reply Wed 27 Aug, 2025 08:31 pm
@izzythepush,
Epstein and Trump had been going on a longtime before they got around to Prince Andrew. Epstein had already been convicted of molesting underage girls in 2005. His sentence only required that he serve time on weekends. There is some speculation that Epstein was a spy and managed to get damaging information on important men. Epstein molested 100s of underage girls. Epstein was not prosecuted by local authorities he was instead by Federal Authorities almost all sex offenders are prosecuted by local authorities. Prince Andrew did molest one of Epstein' girls till 2010.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 28 Aug, 2025 03:55 am
@Zardoz,
Prince Andrew is not a private citizen, he is a member of the establishment which does its level best to cover up the Royal's peccadillos.

God only knows what he was up to before the Epstein stuff came to light.
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hightor
 
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Reply Thu 28 Aug, 2025 05:08 am
@Zardoz,
Zardoz wrote:
Even though the Modern Conservative Movement began during the baby boomers generation as the an extremist political movement most American have no idea that many of the founders and even the father of the Modern Conservative Movement were communist intellectuals.


I knew about a lot of those figures but here's a new book by Daniel J. Flynn about an important one I'd never heard of:

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The Man Who Invented Conservatism - The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer

Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism—fusionism—championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in London chanted “Free Frank Meyer!” to block the deportation of a comrade who was their cause célèbre. Those fervent Marxists could never have predicted that their hero would one day provide the intellectual energy necessary to propel conservatives to political power.

The Man Who Invented Conservatism unveils one of the twentieth century’s great untold stories: a Communist turned conservative, an antiwar activist turned soldier, and a free-love enthusiast turned family man whose big idea captured the American Right. This intellectual migration coincided with a clandestine affair inside 10 Downing Street, service as a lieutenant to the man who later constructed the Berlin Wall, and neighborly chats with the pop-star and poet celebrity next door. Present at the creation of National Review, Meyer helped launch Joan Didion’s writing career. From H. G. Wells to Henry Kissinger to Milton Friedman, he rubbed shoulders with everyone who mattered.

Having discovered Meyer’s previously unexamined correspondence in an old soda warehouse, Daniel J. Flynn documents this saga in The Man Who Invented Conservatism, exposing the rivalries, jealousies, friendships, and fights that shaped the movement and what it means to be a conservative today.


The Man Who Invented Conservatism
The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer
by Daniel J. Flynn
Encounter, 544 pp., $41.99 (hardcover)
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