Sam Tannenhaus

We'll call it the open question.

And this is the first one we're going to run.

So smart.

And that's why Buckley was great.

He could open up instead of this kind of, you know, whom do we denounce?

Who do we exclude?

Do you think...

Make the good argument and I'll run it.

Guy's guy.

I'd add a second thing to that, too, which really made sense to me when I went to Buckley's hometown, Sharon, Connecticut, which is what they call the northwest corner, Litchfield County.

right near Dutchess County, New York, and Western Massachusetts.

So I tell people when the Buckleys were declaring Roosevelt, war in the Roosevelts in the 1930s, they're declaring war on the guy they saw at the Rydbeck horse show every summer.

This is the elites.

Well, but I mention that because when my wife and I went to Sharon, Connecticut, not where Buckley lived as an adult, but where he grew up.

And you can see the house there.

That's where the Young Americans for Freedom first met.

You can see the boulder with the statement on it and all this.

And you walk to that town, you see right across from the Buckley house is the oldest church in town.

And in Connecticut towns, you really learn this.

It's always the Congregational Church.