http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/12/peacenik-prophet-russell-kirk.html

“Kirk saw President Bush’s misuse of Reagan’s Cold War military apparatus as nothing but sheer betrayal of Reaganite, republican, and American principles. In private, Kirk joked that the American people should execute President Bush on the White House lawn. In public, Kirk railed against what he knew to be the beginning of American empire and never-ending war.”