Many things change in this Vale of Tears, but one constant we can always rely upon is that David Frum is a buffoon.
Thoughts For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Not a buffoon as much as one of those conservative types with no backbone. They remind me of the tree salesman in A Christmas Story:
Conservative: This is True!
The Left: That’s horrible!
Conservative: True? Heck, that ain’t true!
David Frum had conquered himself. He loved Big Brother.
He has a history of self-reinvention. He invested three years in cadging a law degree, then went back to his previous occupation as an editorial writer, never working in a law office as aught but a summer clerk. He presented himself as a libertarian ca. 1994, then as a warrior against jihad ca. 2003, then as the recrudescence of Rockefeller Republicanism in 2009. The trouble with the advent of NeverTrump discourse is now you’ve got a mess of people trying to horn in on his act.
You get the impression the man’s whole life has been cosplay.
I have to confess, they’re all starting to run together for me. David Frum, French, Brooks…. I can’t hardly keep track of who is who any more in the pundit pits.
Probably because I increasingly don’t care either.
Props to Ernst on nailing it.
You get the impression the man’s whole life has been cosplay.
Precisely Art!
What a maroon.