Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Silicon Bites #67 - Mr Carlson Comes to Moscow to Amplify The Kremlin's Nuclear Terroristic Threats." video.

  1. I really want to know Friedman’s tailor, because I too wish to be taken seriously as an intellectual. The clothes make the man, and Lex Friedman couture is clearly a viable shortcut to intelligence for the mediocre.
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  2. Carlson would have been branded as Pat Buchanan, Jr. Not as a traitor, but as an isolationist reactionary whose ideas were already discredited and were in the process of being further discredited. In those days of the Reagan presidency, the GOP touted itself as the party of ideas, and to a large degree this was true. Buchananites were given a fair hearing and their ideas were found weak. We must also remember that throughout the 80s, the Soviet Union was in steep decline and suffering from internal struggles. Its Central European colonies were slipping through its fingers. It was disintegrating before our very eyes. We actually sent to its successor state, Russia, hundreds of billions of dollars to keep it and other parts of the former Soviet Union from collapse and descent into anarchy. So, no. Carlson wouldn’t have been branded as a traitor. He would have been dismissed as irrelevant by the mainstream GOP. So the real question is what happened to the GOP? And I would suggest that it became a victim of its own success, that the ideas that worked so well for 20 years had run their course and were no longer the best ideas to address the new problems of the 2000s. Conservatism had run out of new ideas. (I’m not saying that the liberals/Democrats offered a much better idea set, but they were perhaps marginally better or at least worth testing.)
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