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>>I think the right has moved farther right over the last couple of decades, but I think National Review is still attempting to be a magazine for mainstream conservatives, not as Bannon put it, "a platform for the alt-right." Whether Buckley would recognize NR today, I don't know. (Pretty sure he wouldn't recognize the GOP.)
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>No question that Buckley would have strong things to say about how far the GOP has self-destructed.
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>But as I just said to Bill F, I wonder how past Democratic stalwarts would feel about the current DNC looking to overturn the Hyde amendment and trying to subsidize certain elective abortions. And I really wonder how prior leaders would feel about their national committee trying to sabotage a grass-roots candidate.
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It's really hard to judge how leaders of prior generations would address social issues because those change and keep changing. I regularly get bug-eyed stares from young people when I talk about the want ads of my youth: "Help Wanted-Man" and "Help Wanted-Woman."

On abortion, I'll point out that the law was already changing in some places in 1972 when Roe came down. That's 44 years ago.

I'll also point out that Truman tried to get some kind of national health care, as did virtually every president since.

Tamar