re: #7 Blind Frog Belly White

‘Sokay. I joined you there.

When Buckley used his obviously great intellect in service to the worst people in society, reason simply became rationalizing. Philosophy became sophistry.

I still contend he wasn’t as smart as he thought he was but as you said, so much what he did was rationalizing whether that was Jim Crow, Apartheid, or right wing authoritarianism.