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16 Jul, 10 tweets, 5 min read
Digging through the archives of @ChroniclesMag with original copies of each issue going back to the 1970s, found this neat mailer with words of praise from Ronald Reagan and Tom Wolfe ImageImageImage
Russell Kirk, Thomas Fleming, Samuel Francis in one issue ImageImage
"Banana Republicans" Image
Lmao Image
Based anti communism lineup: Lew Rockwell, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, George F. Kenan ("X Article"), John Lukacs, Thomas Fleming ImageImage
Chronicles was GDP trolling and doing the "line go up" meme before memes were a thing Image
The March 1996 issue of Chronicles carried Sam Francis' "From Household to Nation" essay on the Middle American populism of Pat Buchanan. This was the essay Rush Limbaugh read on air to explain the appeal of Donald Trump to people early on. It is more relevant even after Trump ImageImageImage
Having drinks with Paul Gottfried rn this is surreal Image
Very first issue of Chronicles magazine on the left, and the July 1994 issue that carried the famous "Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A." essay Image
Found this cool pamphlet with a very prescient critique of the media by Chronicles founder Leopold Tyrmand ImageImageImageImage

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A perfect way to celebrate Juneteenth, right? This is the country created not just by Democrats but by castrated GOPers like John Cornyn and Donald Trump and the conservative movement eunuchs reconciling us to the rot. You should hate them for the America they've created.
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I mean he just fundamentally changed the federal prison system to the advantage of violent criminals but hey, whatever
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