Bill raises a reasonable point–perhaps all the neocon discussion is too much, or a distraction from more important things. While I see where this argument is coming from, I’m inclined to disagree. As long as we all keep our topics somewhat varied (I’m not always attacking the neocons, for instance), I think it’s important to keep up the pressure on the hijackers of the Right.
Moreover, there are some people out there who, through no fault of their own, really think that these guys are the right wing, and go along with them without thinking. When they get an article from LRC forwarded to them that tells them otherwise, it may well intrigue them. It was in the middle of my tenure as Vice President of my College Republicans ten years ago that I realized what had happened to the so-called “conservative movement,” and I actually tried to resign. College students, I find, don’t like being told they’ve been duped. Being young and energetic for a cause, moreover, and temperamentally unsuited to boring, blase Establishmentarianism, some of these guys are ripe for the plucking, and LRC is just the outlet to do it. (Plus, going after people like Goldberg and Frum seems to drive them nuts, and I consider that an end in itself.)
2:51 pm on June 12, 2003
