David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

A NYT review summarized Hollander's account of the gullibility of midcentury left-wing intellectuals viewing communism abroad. It well applies to 21st century right-wing intellectuals on their tours of their fantasy lands https://t.co/VGTyRd0KFa https://t.co/PKMTRPjfk8 — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1981, the social scientist Paul Hollander published "Political Pilgrims," a landmark study of Western intellectuals who toured and gushed over gruesome communist regimes: Stalin's USSR, Mao's PRC, Castro's Cuba, etc. Now we have right-wing equivalents making Haj to Budapest — PolitiTweet.org

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I visited Hungary in 2016. Again & again, I witnessed a gesture I thought had vanished from Europe forever: people turning their heads to check who was listening before they lent forward to whisper what they had to say. They feared for their jobs, not their lives - but still ... — PolitiTweet.org

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