From William F Buckley to Herschel Walker

To stay with the theme of modern conservatism, I read in the WaPo that Herschel Walker has taken a de-fault position in his upcoming debate with Warnock. Using his broad appeal to the "stupid" constituency, he has claimed outfront that he is "just a country boy", or as it's put in the popular song from the 80s, a Simple Kind of Man. In other words he has no knowledge or reasoning ability or discernment skills. What he has that qualifies him to be a Senator is "common sense". About "country" stuff. One imagines William F Buckley preparing for a debate with Gore Vidal by saying "I'm just a dumb shit up against a guy in a fancy suit." The problem isn't that Walker was a football player rqather than a lawyer, it's that like conservatives in general, but especially the new MAGA variety, thay have zero interest in learning anything. They lack even the little bit of imagination it would take to wonder if they have a coherent world view. Trump spoke to a crowd of Ohio MAGAs and as they played the Q Anon theme song the crowd held up the finger for "one". An injury to one is an injury to... oh no, that's a different "one". Rather than take one second to try to understand a critique of capitalism, a logical, historical straightforward narrative about hierarchy and power, these country folk prefer a convoluted, inchoate drama about sex rings and conspiricy plots. Buckley is rolling in his grave. The other interesting point is that Trump's theme was the Darkness that has descended all around us, crime, inflation, decay. He was a "nattering nabob of negativity" to quote the great Spiro Agnew. It is too late then to Keep America Great. The few black people in the crowd cannot understand this as coded language. As Trump would say: sad.