David Frum: Government Was Better When it Could Make Sweetheart Deals and Kill People in Absolute SecrecyDavid Frum: Government Was Better When it Could Make Sweetheart Deals and Kill People in Absolute Secrecy
11th July 2012
Frum certainly has embraced his inner Crust and ‘progressed’ far from the days when he pretended to be a conservative.
July 11th, 2012 at 20:26
“progressed’ far from the days when he pretended to be a conservative”
Oh, I disagree. He sounds ‘progressively’ more like Cheney every day.
July 11th, 2012 at 20:47
Back in what seems a lifetime ago (early ’00s), I checked Frum’s “How We Got Here: The 70’s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life—For Better or Worse” out of the local library.
This was back in the days when he was still pretending to be a “conservative,” of course, and the book did have some zip & zing to it. But even then I remember thinking: “this guy’s angling to be the next ‘I’m a conservative, but…’ media star.”
I have forgotten just enough about the book to be able to pinpoint why I thought that – other than I do remember his biggest problems with the L.A. riots in 1992 weren’t the riots themselves (or the people who were responsible for perpetuating them), but rather what the late Sam Francis had to say about them in Chronicles magazine (!). When the focus on such an event is what some marginalized white columnist in a fringe magazine has to say about it, rather than talking about the actions of the people who actually burned down their own community and brought death and disorder to their city, i.e., the Black community, it’s a sure sign that the liberal establishment is about to gain another favorite “go-to” guy in the “conservative movement”: “Yes…you know Wolf/David (Gregory)/Mr. Matthews/Rachel/et al, I’m a conservative, but….”
He sure is hitting his groove in that culture now.