Dr Benjamin Carson, an antiestablishment figure who lost to Trump in the 2015 primary, is still touting [W.] Cleon Skousen. Skousen in the 1950s was a LDS thinker. He is best known for The Naked Communist. Today Communists like David Corn don't like it.
But when Mitt Romney was mounting his own run, in 2007: Hemingway over in National Review noted that Mitt Romney was citing Skousen too (disclosure: I never voted for him). So also Glenn Beck (disco 2 boogaloo: he's nuts).
Skousen's ideas were terrible. Hemingway notes that Skousen's exegesis of LDS scripture is in the modern LDS mainstream (probably why Skousen didn't want blacks in there); also his analysis of Constitutional Law tends to be well regarded. But Carson wasn't citing those parts. He was citing the anti-Communist parts.
Luckily I don't think Kirk cited Skousen, himself, anywhere.
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