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There is something going on in the distinct american right. how do you communicate that to people who exist on the american right? william f. buckley s great contribution to america and american conservatism was to kick the crazies out of the conservative movement. probably a longer discussion than we have time for tonight, but unfortunately, looking back, that the word liberal became an epithet. small l liberalism, conservatism is a root branch of it and the democratic parties and the republican parties, both liberal parties, compete in the arena of ideas a democratic society to move the country forward. what we are seeing is the co-option of the conservative republican party in a personality which is fundamentally unconservative led by donald trump, that is authoritarian in nature, that is antithetical to the orthodox is ....
But didn t want to stay on the line very long. got off it probably just didn t help the scenario any that john f. kennedy is dead and he was killed in texas, lyndon johnson s state. would you really think that it s hard for me doing all the work on it, you ve done it, too, about the relationship between jack kennedy. he picked johnson for his own needs to win texas and win some other southern states. they were never buddies before, probably never buddies again. what is your thinking about the real sentiment between those two? there was no relationship there by 1963. you know, bobby kennedy lived to loathe lyndon johnson, as did ted kennedy and the kennedy family. there was always a feeling that johnson s presidency wasn t real, that there was just a co-option of kennedy policies. and the proof is in the pudding. that bobby kennedy geared up to run in 1968 over vietnam and wanted to, you know in many ways, help cripple johnson s presidency. ....
Kennedy was obviously in shock and had to take the phone call but didn t want to stay on the line very long. got off it probably just didn t help the scenario any that john f. kennedy is dead and he was killed in texas, lyndon johnson s state. oh, yeah. do you really think that it s hard for me doing all the work, you ve done it too about that relationship between jack kennedy. i know he picked johnson for his own needs to win texas and other southern states. they were never buddies before. probably never buddies again. but what is your thinking about the real sentiments involved? there was no relationship there by 1963. you know, bobby kennedy lived to loathe lyndon johnson as did ted kennedy and the kennedy family. there was always the feeling that johnson s presidency wasn t real, that it was really just a co-option of kennedy policies and the proof in the pudding that bobby kennedy geared up to run in 1968 over vietnam and ....
I mean, this is a guy who s walked away from climate changeç he s walked away from mandates on health care. so has newt gingrich. so in that sense you could argue maybe that the tea party has actually won. yeah, that s a good point. i think that to the degree that it s the end of the tea party i mean it in the sense of as a distinct oppositional force. because i think what we ve seen is a kind of co-option, and that co-option has moved in both directions. i think you re exactly right to say that what we ve seen from the positions taken by the primary candidates is to cater as much as is humanly possible to the most sort of radical notions. i mean, you have people who were going to be front-runners like rick perry saying they want to get rid of social security, which is really about as far out there as you can get. right. and you ve got too the fact that they just there are so many candidates out there now vying for the tea party vote, vying for the christian conservative ....
On health care. so has newt gingrich. so in that sense you could argue maybe that the tea party has actually won. yeah, that s a good point. i think that to the degree that it s the end of the tea party i mean it in the sense of as a distinct oppositional force. because i think what we ve seen is a kind of co-option, and that co-option has moved in both directions. i think you re exactly right to say that what we ve seen from the positions taken by the primary candidates is to cater as much as is humanly possible to the most sort of radical notions. i mean, you have people who were going to be front-runners like rick perry saying they want to get rid of social security, which is really about as far out there as you can get. right. and you ve got too the fact that they just there are so many candidates out there now vying for the tea party vote, vying for the christian conservative vote, that you know, they haven t been able to sort of coalesce around anyone. ....