{"id":81199,"date":"2022-03-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81199"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:32:44","slug":"dawn-of-the-neo-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81199","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Of The Neo-NeoCon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kevin Williamson successfully articulated something I couldn&#8217;t quite, myself, over this past few weeks, as American &#8220;liberals&#8221; have gone from flirting with police defunders to cheerleading for no-fly zones:  it&#8217;s the dawn of the neo-neocon.    All of the neo, none of the (visible) con. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The war has produced a bull market in what I suppose we have to call neo-neo-conservatism, with Democrats and center-Left figures suddenly rediscovering the uses \u2014 and necessity \u2014 of American hard power. You won\u2019t find a better example of this than Professor Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution, who in a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-godzilla-effect\/id1291144720?i=1000554174571\" target=\"_blank\">recent conversation with Jonah Goldberg<\/a>\u00a0was at pains to distance himself from anything that might be called \u201cconservative\u201d or \u201cBushian,\u201d in his words. Instead, Professor Hamid insisted, responsible liberals such as himself (1) have kept true to their principles while other elements of the Democratic coalition have descended into mad radicalism and identity politics; (2) understand that the alternative to American hegemony is Chinese hegemony or Russo-Chinese hegemony; and (3) being worldly cosmopolitans, admit that it is entirely understandable that Europeans take a different view of European refugees than they do of, say, Muslim refugees from Syria, whose culture and religion inevitably make it more difficult to assimilate them.<\/p><p>For those of you keeping score at home, Professor Hamid here has channeled (1) Ronald Reagan (\u201cI didn\u2019t leave the Democratic Party \u2014 the Democratic Party left me!\u201d); (2) George W. Bush (an axis of\u00a0<em>what<\/em>, now?); and, perhaps most surprising, (3) Pat Buchanan, once denounced as a vile racist for asking hypothetically whether Virginia would have an easier time assimilating 1 million English immigrants or 1 million Zulu immigrants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything old is truly new again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson successfully articulated something I couldn&#8217;t quite, myself, over this past few weeks, as American &#8220;liberals&#8221; have gone from flirting with police defunders to cheerleading for no-fly zones: it&#8217;s the dawn of the neo-neocon. All of the neo, none of the (visible) con. The war has produced a bull market in what I suppose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81199\/revisions\/81200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}