Source: The UnPopulist
by Joshua Tait
“From the early 1950s until the close of the millennium, William F. Buckley Jr. stood out as America’s preeminent conservative. The term ‘influencer’ would be anachronistic, but Buckley was a leading conservative light on every platform of the day. He made his bones as a speaker, magazine founder, editor, television host and personality, novelist, journalist, and pioneering opinion writer. He became a counselor to presidents and was unquestionably one of the leading builders of the postwar conservative movement. Over the decades, Buckley moved from enfant terrible of the ‘liberal establishment’ — by which he meant the dominant political ideology of New Deal liberalism and the social caste that ruled it — to something more like a lion at a zoo. Still fearsome, but comfortably ensconced in the halls he once castigated.” (06/04/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/william-f-buckley-cemented-the-conservative