Sentences with phrase «though modern conservatism»

Though modern conservatism sprung up in response to FDR's government interventionism, with plenty of Republicans in the 1930s labeling the New Deal socialist, it really got rolling in the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and»50s, with Joe McCarthy and his ilk doing the dirty work and intellectuals like Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol providing the ideas.

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Though long «since canonized as one of the fathers of modern conservatism, in large part because of his influential 1953 book The Conservative Mind, Kirk (who died in 1994) fits awkwardly with the other men identified as the founders of that movement.
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