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Entry: The New Face of National Review Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_trotskyist_hour#878 Post contents: An excellent summary of neoconservatives' roots and their astonishing ability to take over what used to be the intellectual core of American conservatism. I would, however, suggest an important modification: Please, do put a very clear distance between H.L. Mencken and the traditional conservative movement, particularly Christianity-based conservatism. The reason of this suggestion can be found in Mencken's "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche." In this book Mencken advocates actions that are totally unacceptable for civilized humans -- among other things, he quotes favorably a suggestion to solve America's racial problem by exterminating blacks. (p. 292. See also p. 314. Note that Mencken wrote this in 1908, long before Hitler started applying similar ideas.) Mencken's willingnes to accept killing masses of humans puts him into the same camp with the Trotskyists. Sent at: 2008 05 16