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Topic: William F. Buckley

Sign at Stratton, Colo, Shows Damage From Attempts To Destroy It Erected by the John Birch Society, billboard calls for impeachment of Earl Warren. Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)

Before Trump and QAnon came Robert Welch

Kathryn Joyce
QAnon Shaman | William F Buckley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The myth of Buckley and the Birchers

Cormac Kelly
President Donald Trump poses ahead of a dinner at Winfield House for Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during their state visit on June 04, 2019 in London, England. (Getty/Peter Summers)

George Will: GOP has "become a cult"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings in rural Paulding County, Ga, April 23, 2016. (AP/John Bazemore)

White supremacy is everywhere

Anis Shivani
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan delivers remarks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol after President Trump's healthcare bill was pulled from the floor of the House of Representatives March 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. In a big setback to the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Speaker, Ryan cancelled a vote for the American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also called 'Obamacare.' (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Getty/Win McNamee)

Ryan and the right's failures

Matthew Sheffield
Edmund Burke; Charles Montgomery Burns, William F. Buckley, Jr. (Wikimedia/Fox/AP/Nancy Kaye/Photo montage by Salon)

Conservative thought, RIP

Andrew O'Hehir
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trump to GOP: All aboard!

Elias Isquith
(Wikimedia/Salon)

GOP hates when we tell truth

Heather Cox Richardson

How dueling snobs remade TV

Andrew O'Hehir
William F. Buckley, Jr. (AP)

Buckley's vile race arguments

Kevin M. Schultz
(Wikimedia/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Wing-nuts destroyed the media

Rory Tolan
Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker (AP/John Minchillo/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

Jindal just splintered the GOP

Heather Cox Richardson
Scott Walker, Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men," Ted Cruz (AP/Mark Humphrey/Tristar/Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Photo montage by Salon)

The right's war with the truth

Heather Cox Richardson
Bill O'Reilly, Patrick Lynch, Sean Hannity (Fox News/AP/John Minchillo)

New York's epic white backlash

Joan Walsh
Rudy Giuliani, Bill de Blasio (Reuters/Richard Drew/Eduardo Munoz/Photo montage by Salon)

Giuliani's white backlash junk

Joan Walsh
(© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

NRO'S Hysterical Bigotry

Luke Brinker
Ronald Reagan (AP/Barry Thumma)

Death of liberal Republicans

Edmund Fawcett
William F. Buckley Jr. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

National Review on the ropes

Elias Isquith
William F. Buckley, Jr., Michele Bachmann (AP/Nancy Kaye/Cliff Owen)

Birth of conservative outrage

Jeffrey M. Berry, Sarah Sobieraj
Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Conservatives' Mandela problem

Alex Halperin
(Benjamin Wheelock/Salon/AP/Phil Long)

The right once mocked Ayn Rand

Michael Lind

Why conservatives hate college

Neil Gross