The Republican Party has many flaws, but the fact that David Frum is no longer a member of it is definitely a solid plus for the party.
Remember When David Frum Tried to Read People Out of the Republican Party Over Iraq?
- 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.
Frum has been for about 15 years now his own special category of creepy.
The list of people who were elite or at least obtrusive Republicans in 2003 who were willing to endorse Biden in 2020 is one indication of why the Republican Party in Washington accomplishes so little.
Just want to correct one point. Frum’s target in 2002 was a collection of people associated with the Rockford Institute, not antagonists of the Iraq War per se. The people he was critiquing (and his remarks were not limited to their stance in re the Iraq War) deserved every word. As far as I can recall, the better contributors to Chronicles (e.g. Philip Jenkins) were not mentioned.
What did Frum say? I’m not seeing that.
Thanks for catching that Dave. Corrected.
Art, I was referring to his 2003 article in National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/unpatriotic-conservatives-david-frum/
As it happens I supported, and still do, the War in Iraq, but even back then I thought Frum’s article was over the top.
That’s the one to which I was referring. (I recalled it as the end of 2002). Although the Iraq War was the hook, the article was a more generalized critique of the circle around Thos. Fleming. A residue of the Rockford Institute still exists.
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