Paul Gottfried remembers a speech which was enlightening.
In a memorable speech delivered at the Heritage Foundation in April 1988 (at which I was present), Russell Kirk declaimed against the neoconservatives as a force hollowing out the conservative movement “from within.” He emphatically rejected the practice of referring to those leftist outsiders as conservatives and urged true conservatives not to have any truck with such interlopers.
Fortunately for the right, Kirk explained, these invaders from the ideological left would not be with us for long. They would soon become an “endangered species” as more and more people on our side would recognize they were not conservatives and indeed were subverting the right....
That explains Charlie Sykes very well. A Lefty from birth (and throughout his early years), he "converted" but only as a subversive. It would seem that Bill Kristol has a very similar political history, too, as do Podhoretz and Oren Cass. The money comes from the Murdochs--but not only them.
They fooled us--once.
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