Homophobes at Fox News have ridiculous opinions of Sec. Buttigieg

[milliefink]

@mindfu

Buckley did have a genuine skill with words. He just used them to concoct lofty defenses and distancing euphemisms for ugly, destructive and irrational beliefs and policies.

@mindfu

Such as when Buckley spoke in a point-counterpoint with James Baldwin at Cambridge, another staggering mismatch.

No doubt.

Homophobes at Fox News have ridiculous opinions of Sec. Buttigieg

Hmmm, just an eminence front, no? Dude was a mean, arrogant windbag. Which was shown here, where James Baldwin wields an even sharper scalpel to eviscerate that smug, pale whale. [James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965]

@mindfu

And Gore Vidal, who so frustrated Buckley that Buckley’s mask slipped and he felt emotionally forced to stoop to physical threat.

Yep, fer reals.

Homophobes at Fox News have ridiculous opinions of Sec. Buttigieg

[Mindysan33]

@mindfu

Buckley did have a genuine skill with words

Nah… he was good at sounding intellectual, while actually being a bully…

[mindfu]

Agree with both. But that also doesn’t exclude skill with words of course. Just that in Buckley’s case, that skill being used for purposes vile and stupid.

[Mindysan33]

@mindfu

for purposes vile and stupid.

Pretty much sums up movement conservatism as a whole…

[mindfu]

100 % agree.

[Mindysan33]