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Cryptoad

(8,254 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:45 PM Oct 2016

Dear GOP, How did you get from,,,,

Wm F Buckley Jr to DJ Trump? Was it a natural progression or a mutation? Do Tell!

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Dear GOP, How did you get from,,,, (Original Post) Cryptoad Oct 2016 OP

Natural progression; planned, too. Oldem Oct 2016 #1

Oldem

(833 posts)

1. Natural progression; planned, too.

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:52 PM

Oct 2016

I recently saw a replay of a show about the Buckley-Vidal "debates." I lived through all that and somehow managed to miss most of it. Most illuminating. Vidal was no saint, but he did achieve his primary purpose: making Buckley expose himself for what he really was.

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