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Bacevich on Modern Conservatism and Civil Rights

“the impetus for providing equal access to the rights guaranteed by the Constitution originated among pinks, lefties, liberals, and Image may be NSFW.
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bleeding-heart fellow travelers. When it came to ensuring that every American should get a fair shake, the contribution of modern conservatism has been essentially nil. Had Martin Luther King counted on William F. Buckley and the National Review to take up the fight against racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Jim Crow would still be alive and well.” – The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich, p.266

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