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Entry: The End of An Era Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_end_of_an_era#18462 Post contents: "Buckley never actually seemed to persuade any of the liberals who read him. But he demanded and got their respect..." So what? Ed Roberts is right. What did this patrician really do besides provide some entertainment? On the foundational issues that make conservatism even possible -- cultural stability, limited government, local control, immigration -- Buckley was unengaged (or worse). Look where we are today? It's telling that fellow Yalie Zmirak decries the "populism" of NR (by which he actually means non-Catholicism, ie Jewishness). Conservatism requires populism. Elitists like Buckley and his progeny, the nurturers of neoconservatism even when in paleo-exile, are conservatism's enemy. Sent at: 2008 09 08