The new unpatriotic conservatives

David 'axis of evil' Frum and the new unpatriotic conservatives. My latest at @spectator : https://t.co/wT4W7ayGqY @jimantle @JimBovard @jackhunter74 @mtaibbi @ToryAnarchist @JamesPPinkerton

— Kelley B. Vlahos (@KelleyBVlahos) February 8, 2022

The Spectator’s Kelley B. Vlahos writes, “Frum’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech, which he wrote for President George W. Bush, helped his fellow neoconservatives to touch off a global war on terror that cost the country upwards of $8 trillion and killed more than 900,000 people, according to the most recent estimates. The country having now turned on this neocon foreign policy, Frum has since reinvented himself as a ‘Never Trumper.’ After two books explaining why the ‘Trumpocalypse’ is responsible for the ‘corruption of the American republic,’ he’s returned to his old tricks, vilifying conservatives who don’t toe the line on Russia…

Though he does suggest these conservative critics are ‘friends of Putin,’ Frum doesn’t go full 2003 in his latest effort. He lets his new friends at the Washington Post, New York Times, and Politico do that for him. Since Carlson is the most visible conservative taking on both Republicans and Democrats on the Russia issue, there must be more to it. The answer, of course, is always the same: white ethnonationalism.”

Read the entire column.