Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "" video.
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I wouldn't call the neoconservatives "anti-communists," but anti-Stalinists, and anti-Soviet Socialists. Kristol's lot were Trotskyists, thus, they were Marxists. They accused Stalin of being "nationalistic," and the support of Stalin and the Soviets on the left was why they fled D Party. Buckley acquired himself some very strange bedfellows, but Buckley was British, and they had a liking for socialism as well.
One has to remember that under Ike came the "Eisenhower Policy," which pretty much led the US to spread "liberal democracy" around the world at the end of a gun barrel. They kept that policy paper under wraps for years before it was released. The Old Right would have not stood for those actions.
Nixon was Ike's VP, and I have always called him the first Neoconservative president. He was surrounded by Kristol's lot, and many bad policy decisions were made under him.
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