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Anyone who -- like Frum -- holds faithfully to his principles may be forgiven for feeling crazy as the ephemeral "center" of our political culture has shifted right in recent decades.
ReplyDeleteFrum may replace David Brooks as the liberals' "favorite conservative."
Ironically, Republican Frum is to the left of Democrat Obama. That does sound crazy.
What most amazes me, though, is how anyone can claim to hold steadfast to the "center," as if the center (a relative term) referred to something principled and unchanging.
(As an aside, I'd quibble with some of Frum's actual beliefs. For instance, since he believes in the "free market," the burden is on him to demonstrate that it actually exists. See James Galbraith's book, "The Predator State").