Why Willmoore Kendall And James Burnham Are the Prophets of Modern Conservatism
James Burnham and Willmoore Kendall helped give birth and intellectual legitimacy to a conservative movement primarily defined by its opposition to liberalism, resentment of elites, distrust of democracy, and drive to fight the liberal destruction of America and “the West.”
THE TALK show host lays out his argument borrowed from a book he’s just read, or at least consulted, while on holiday. He calls liberalism “the ideology of our national suicide.” Driven by guilt and the temptation of socialism, liberals consider the American dream a nightmare because it “distorts their bright vision of human perfection with such corny concepts as national sovereignty, Constitutional limitations upon Federal power and the religious principle of personal responsibility.” If and when liberals succeed in their aims, he announces, “the American Republic will have died, and by its own hand.”