David Brooks has published an article in The Atlantic that recounts how he read Edmund Burke and became a conservative. He apparently thinks that there was a moment in the history of the Republican Party in which the party was genuinely conservative.
The party of his youth was run by the greedy guts of Wall Street, not by the nasty racist William Buckley. The party bosses were never conservative. They were intent on huge changes in taxation and establishing monopolies.
It's not surprising that a Wall Street party slid into Fascism. That is a natural evolution. Obtuse people like Brooks share the blame.
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