…is quite pertinant to today’s issues, but comes to us from last century.
This is from William F. Buckley:
Conservatives in this country — at least those who have not made their peace with the New Deal, and there is serious question whether there are others — are non-licensed nonconformists; and this is dangerous business in a Liberal world, as every editor of this magazine can readily show by pointing to his scars. Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by the Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.
via The Hungry and the Well Fed | RedState.
Unfortunately, National Review has pretty much tanked for the establishment GOP these days.
Go read the rest, it’s good stuff.
Truth, Lies and In Between 