Ain't it grand? Neocon David Brooks celebrates the "governing" (that is, pistol to your temple) stance of the GOP.
But did Bill Buckley really invent conservatism in the early 1950s? As Murray Rothbard pointed out, this is propaganda intended to send the Old Right down the memory hole, and to convince Americans that conservatism means bombs and central planning. In other words, Buckley is a neocon.
But the Old Right, born in opposition to FDR's New Deal and drive to war, still lives, thanks largely to Rothbard.
