people like william f buckley.le of kind of dictators and that they end up admiring. you know, i never understood, like, why do they franco so much? you know, whether it's salazar in portugal. i mean, there's a long list in chile. you mentioned why. right. i mean, it's it's a little bit hard to wrap your mind around the party of ronald reagan and the freedom agenda how is it freedom to be supporting people like tha■ut?well, bill buckley n of fairly irish catholic. his father was actually involved in the revolution in mexico. and became convinced that, you know, the communist threat everywhere after his experiences, mexico and, the much of family, ended up living in■ franco's and including as well his brother in law, el bozell, who went off the deep end and staged actually the first violent abortion protest here in washington, d.c., in 1969 and was arrested. buckley had, you know, as a soft spot and are the national review had its good dictators. they also defended apartheid in south africa. bill buckley wrote in ed