When conservative icon William F. Buckley died 15 years ago, the movement to which he dedicated his life was facing an ordeal. Hear more: HistoryAsItHappens podcast
” George W. Bush’s second term, a presidency marked by the massive failures of the Iraq War, response to Hurricane Katrina and subprime mortgage crisis.
Buckley, the intellectual driving force behind the National Review, in 2006 called the Iraq war a failure and in an interview the year before had chastised Mr. Bush’s foreign policy as “.” As the presidential campaign unfolded in 2008, the Republican brand was badly tarnished. Less than a generation after Buckley’s death, conservatives are somewhat split over the major foreign policy question of the times: to what extent should the U.S assist Ukraine in its war against Russian aggression? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely entrant into the 2024 presidential race,for Ukraine’s defense while labeling the war a “regional dispute,” rather than a cosmic confrontation pitting democracy against autocracy.
Moreover, both the Republican Party and conservative movement – the two overlap – are infused with more right-wing populism than Buckley might have liked, a populism that embraced the rise of Donald J. Trump in GOP politics. In this episode of
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