I mean, the conservative movement started by Buckley has found its apex in the rise of a fascist wannabe-dictator surrounded by pusillanimous flunkies hiding under the official titles of legislators https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1074496844858884097
Conservatives really want to pretend that there’s something to save out of this calamity and I am sorry to inform you that no there is not
All the way back to Buckley you were told over and over again that this was a problem. That you were extremists. That rebranding the Confederacy was not a viable strategy for the Republic. You insisted that we needed to let you in. And look at what you did.
The failures of the movement are so catastrophic as to render its accomplishments meaningless. All we have to remember it by are witticisms and nostalgic “decorum,” shared amongst white men over sifters of brandy