Sometimes Conservatives Say What Needs to Be Said

Of course, CWL-in-exile has Jim Pauwels writing in this vein, saying what needs to be said.

Today, Bret Stephens of the NYTimes (formerly of the WSJ, and who knows where else) said something that needs to be said to the Democratic circular firing squad and his colleagues at the Times.

He begins by writing of long-ago lunches with an Iranian "diplomat." The  "conversations ... were exceptionally candid. He almost surely sought me out because my pro-Israel stance represented, in the view of the regime he served, the core beliefs of Zionist-occupied Washington. In turn, I got a crisply articulated sense of Iran’s strategic thinking along with invitations to meet with various Iranian leaders...."

Stephens, citing Aristotle, calls this "a friendship of utility," "adventitious, opportunistic and usually short-lived."  He goes on to defend Joe Biden's "friendships" with segregationists Herman Talmidge and James Eastland. Stephens presumably no fan of Biden observes: "He simply dealt with the Congress as he found it and looked for opportunities to be constructive and consequential rather than destructive and obnoxious." The point of Biden's critics: "to rid the party of compromisers of any sort — that is, to purge the Democratic Party of its democratic instincts."

He concludes: "The irony here is that the left’s apocalyptic tendencies have everything in common with the behavior of the Trumpian right: the smash-mouth partisanship; the loathing for moderates on its own side; the conviction that its opponents are unbelievably stupid as well as irredeemably evil...."