Max Boot on Kavanaugh and Conservatives
11th October 2018
One of the seminal shakeups in American politics was when a lot of liberal Democrats decided that they couldn’t take it any more and became right-wing Republicans. These were the so-called ‘neo-cons’: Irving Kristol, Normal Podhoretx, Midge Decter, etc. They are the intellectual heavyweights behind the ‘Invade the world, invite the world’ program that the Republican establishment has followed during the Cold War and beyond.
Another movement now seems to be taking place, where the Never-Trumper Republicans are taking a hard look at the existing Republican party and deciding that they really don’t have anything in common with Those People. So we see people like Max Boot sounding more and more like proglodyte Democrats. They’re cashing in on their former status as ‘conservatives’ by writing Republican-bashing pieces for the DemLegHump Media, but eventually that Clever Plastic Disguise will wear thin, and they’ll subside into the Swamp with the rest of their new friends.