Sunday, March 23, 2003

Unpatriotic Conservatives (David Frum, National Review, March 19, 2003)

When I thought I knew politics well in the mid 1990s, I was surprised when candidate Patrick Buchanan appeared as a guest on This Week with David Brinkley and George Will went after him harder than anyone. I didn't understand why Will would be so adversarial to Buchanan when they were both conservatives. I didn't understand the nuances of conservative thought and how different brands of the ideology were at war for the future of the movement. This article by David Frum is a long but interesting history of that disagreement.

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