I knew about this excommunication by WFB. But over the decades since the 1960''s the far Left has become far more powerful on the liberal political side than the far Right ever became on the conservative side. We could ask the Dems to police the far Left but I think that horse is out of the barn:
Your OP is not only inconsistent with your source article, it is almost opposed to it. The article is clearly about the longstanding influence of "fringe" groups, on the RIGHT. Your OP, however, dismisses your link, with its opening statement, that you had been aware of "this excommunication (of fringe groups) by WFB." The rest of your opinion, is all about THE LEFT, and has nothing really to do with the article, coming completely out of your own little head.
By the way, your opinion is clearly ignorant of history. In 1925, the KKK was so powerful of a "fringe" group, that they staged two days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., with over 50 k clan members & their families, capped off with a march of 30 k attendees, not wearing any covering over their faces (as requested, by the government). There were then an estimated 3 million clan members. --I know, you'll say that the KKK is a Democratic group, LOL. Yeah, those are some real Leftists, for you. This was a nativist group, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, against anything they saw as alien to to that tradition. IOW, the clear resemblance is to the current Right, not the "far more powerful" far Left. Clansmen are Conservatives, and much closer related to the John Birch Society, which is mentioned in your snip, than they are related to any group of America's political Left, especially of the mainstream Left. https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-hi...90711598/when-the-ku-klux-klan-was-mainstream <Snip> Imagine: There was a time when the KKK was an out-in-the-open, part-of-the-community organization. I had always envisioned the repugnant and reprehensible lawbreakers operating in the cowardly shadows. After all, it was known as the Invisible Empire. So, I wondered, if the KKK fielded a baseball team, what were some of the group's other seemingly innocuous, All-American activities? KKK Baby Contests The 1920s were a bawdy, gaudy time in America: jazz wafting, flappers dancing, gangsters bootlegging, Wall Street rocking. And, as it turns out, the Ku Klux Klan was considered by many to be an accepted group in society. In fact, the Klan was so mainstream in some parts of the country that local KKK groups "sponsored, in public, baseball teams, father-son outings, beautiful baby contests, weddings, baby christenings, junior leagues, road rallies, festivals," says Kathleen M. Blee. <End Snip>
None of that is true about the Birch Society. Buckley often locked horns with JBS President Larry McDonald (D-GA), and tried to sidetrack the work of the Society, which was to expose the networks of anti-American agents being produced by our elite universities, and placed and promoted within our government. McDonald was ultimately assassinated by the Soviets in 1983 when they shot down Korean Airlines 007. 260 some people were killed. Anyway, Buckley was the leader of the "respectable, acceptable right". He was university pals with all of the leftists. Attended the same dinner parties, belonged to the same clubs, ran in the same social circles, etc. It's always been that way with "acceptable leaders on the right". They are in actuality, misleaders. Going back to Eisenhower. Robert Taft was the Republican frontrunner for President in 1952, and his VP was Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Taft was pro-America, anti-communist, and anti-Establishment - those were not, and are not, policy positions that are acceptable to America's financial and intellectual elite. They brought in Eisenhower and promoted him as a patriotic war hero, while their dirty-tricks department set about smearing Taft and cutting off his financial support. The rest is history. If you want to learn more about how Eisenhower rose to prominence, you should read Robert Welch's book, The Politician.
