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Category Archives: Neoconservatives
Neocon: Hold Donald Trump’s voters accountable, too: They are embracing a demagogue with eyes wide open
Gabriel Schoenfeld writes April 9: Even before he entered the political arena, it was evident to most anyone with eyes that Donald Trump was a moral disgrace. Philandering, misogyny, fraud, bankruptcy and tackiness were almost synonyms for his name. To … Continue reading
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Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer
From Steve Sailer in 2005: Fukuyama Responds to Krauthammer: The Israelization of American Foreign Policy. You may recall that prominent neocon Francis “End of History” Fukuyama jumped ship awhile ago and criticized Charles Krauthammer in The National Interest for his … Continue reading
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The Ted Cruz Foreign Policy Team
Comments to Paul Gottfried: * Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, has unveiled his new foreign policy team, stacked with some of the most aggressive hawks imaginable, saying they are a group of his “trusted friends” who believe in a “strong … Continue reading
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Will A Trump Victory Dislodge The Neo-Cons?
Paul Gottfried writes: Although I fully share the jubilation of others that Donald Trump may be taking a wrecking ball to the GOP establishment, I don’t hold the view that Trump’s candidacy will reduce neoconservative power. Matthew Richer, Justin Raimondo … Continue reading
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Max Boot Prefers Stalin To Donald Trump
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Joseph Stalin was the leader of a creedal nation — a nation founded upon a specific set of ideas. Ideas that millions of people, many of whom were not Russian, cherished in their hearts. Allegiance … Continue reading
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Neo-Cons Declare War On Trump
Comments to Steve Sailer: * That the Republican establishment apparently cares more about the support of “several dozen GOP foreign policy insiders” than it does for 80 million Trump voters tells you everything about how they got to this point. … Continue reading
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Another Jewish Neo-Con Panics About Donald Trump
Eliot A. Cohen writes: How on earth did this happen? Some, like Robert Kagan, think it is solely the result of a prolonged self-poisoning of the Republican Party. A number of shrewd writers—David Frum, Tucker Carlson, Ben Domenech, Charles Murray, … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Vs Neo-Cons
Boyd D. Cathey writes: Let’s go deeper: various authors and historians, including Prof. Paul Gottfried, Prof. Claes Ryn, and Gary Dorrien (in his path-breaking volume, The Neoconservative Mind) have documented that the present-day “Mainstream Conservative Movement,” is, in fact, composed … Continue reading
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Neocon flap highlights Jewish divide
Good stuff from 2008: WASHINGTON (IPS) – A mushrooming media controversy pitting neoconservatives against a prominent Jewish-American political commentator could mark a new stage in the growing battle over who speaks for the US Jewish community on foreign policy issues, … Continue reading
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Jonah Goldberg: It’s time to put the term ‘neocon’ out to pasture
You know a term is a dirty word when its proponents want it put out to pasture. Jonah Goldberg is a neo-con. By no means, is he conservative. Neo-cons were behind the disastrous Afghan and Iraq invasions of 2002 and … Continue reading
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