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The Crusader State versus the Foreign Policy of the Old Right

The Crusader State versus the Foreign Policy of the Old Right

The foreign policy of the Old Right of the Republican Party is undergoing a revival through the now retired Congressmen Ron Paul and now his son, Senator Rand Paul. They are the joint heirs of the Old Right of the Republican Party and Senator Robert A. Taft.

In The Republican Road Not Taken: The Foreign-Policy Vision of Robert A. TaftMichael T. Hayes argues that Taft was isolationist, which is…

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In retrospect, it is clear that libertarians and Old Rightists, including myself, had made a great mistake in endorsing domestic red-baiting, a red-baiting that proved to be the major entering wedge for the complete transformation of the original right wing. We should have listened more carefully to Frank Chodorov, and to his splendidly libertarian stand on domestic redbaiting: “How to get rid of the communists in the government? Easy. Just abolish the jobs.” It was the jobs and their functioning that was the important thing, not the quality of the people who happened to fill them.

Murray N. Rothbard, Betrayal of the American Right, p.162