Conservative Infighting Goes Back to 1950s-Era ‘The Freeman’ Magazine

Infighting on the right did not start with Never Trumpers, Always Trumpers, Catholic integralists, postliberals, or libertarian purists. Conservatives who feel strongly about this or that issue have always clashed with conservatives who feel strongly about that or this issue.

“You probably know by this time that the three editors of the FREEMAN — John Chamberlain, Forrest Davis, and Suzanne LaFollette — have resigned from the magazine,” Gertrude Vogt wrote Frank Meyer in early 1953. “(And, confidentially, I’m not going to stay any longer than I have to).”

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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, the author of The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, is an American Spectator senior editor, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and YouTuber @RightWingWilderness.

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Infighting on the right did not start with Never Trumpers, Always Trumpers, Catholic integralists, postliberals, or libertarian purists. Conservatives who feel strongly about this or that issue have always clashed with conservatives who feel strongly about that or this issue.

“You probably know by this time that the three editors of the FREEMAN — John Chamberlain, Forrest Davis, and Suzanne LaFollette — have resigned from the magazine,” Gertrude Vogt wrote Frank Meyer in early 1953. “(And, confidentially, I’m not going to stay any longer than I have to).”