Buckley was considered rather irreverent when he first appeared on the scene. Accused of the routine liberal jive of being a fascist, racist, and Nazi, etc. What liberals can't tolerate is real debate and diversity of opinion. They are cultural and ideological dictators. If you disagree, you are "evil" or a "racist." They slander their opponents and go wild with the Hitler allusions. Nixon was "Hitlerian" for liberals. Reagan was. And so on and so on. They love to fantasize about themselves as always running against Hitler and the Nazis. They want to slaughter the unborn and then complain about the "mean-spirited" lack of civility in political discourse when their boy is outed as a "rapist." People who think it's fine to slam scissors into an infant's brain have a lot of nerve complaining about "mean-spirited" anything... What weirdos!