Conservatism has drifted in interesting and not particularly positive directions over the last several decades, and a large part of that drift can be attributed to Buckley's influence.
I especially lay at his feet the transformation of the adjective "liberal" into something that was casually and unthinkingly accepted as the moral equivalent of "child molester".
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Date: 2008-03-01 09:12 pm (UTC)I especially lay at his feet the transformation of the adjective "liberal" into something that was casually and unthinkingly accepted as the moral equivalent of "child molester".