The Buckley Stops Here: Trump And The Death of Conservative Civility
Breaking History
The Free Press
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This November will mark the 100th anniversary of William F. Buckley Jr.'s |
| 0:05.0 | He, more than any other figure, is responsible for creating the American conservative movement |
| 0:11.0 | that fueled the Reagan Revolution nearly 50 years ago. |
| 0:15.0 | After the break, what happened to that revolution in the era of Donald Trump? |
| 0:29.9 | Hi, Poucault and back lab able, the part you got this next year's model, |
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| 1:28.4 | Remember when conservatives sounded like this? |
| 1:31.5 | I should like to begin by asking President Reagan, |
| 1:35.6 | what would you do if, say, one afternoon, |
| 1:38.8 | you were advised that a race riot had broken out in Detroit? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I would be inclined to say that that was a problem for the local authorities in Detroit, |
| 1:53.0 | unless those local authorities were unable to control the situation and called in the federal government for |
| 1:59.0 | martial help such as troops, but otherwise it really is a local |
| 2:04.4 | problem, and maybe one of the things that's been happening too much is the federal government |
| 2:07.8 | has been interfering where they haven't been invited in. |
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