Buckley

For what it's worth, from Cursor:

Noting that "Buckley bears little resemblance to the modern-day, Bush-era 'conservative' movement," Glenn Greenwald cites an account of an argument between Buckley and Norman Podhoretz, and, "sorry as we may be to mark Buckley's passing," writes Timothy Noah, "we should be very glad that the country ignored much of what he had to say."

The country didn't ignore enough of it. Even if conservatism didn't work out exactly as Buckley would have liked, it's still a flawed and failed movement made worse by the morons who hijacked it, and he still started it. And we're still suffering from it.