[neverdem]

He authored an acclaimed biography of Whittaker Chambers, whose public renunciation of Communism, testimony implicating Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, and autobiographical masterpiece Witness became mid-century landmarks in the making of modern American conservatism. And Tanenhaus is writing an authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr., modern conservatism’s most influential figure.

Maybe that helps to explain why I thought Tanenhaus was some sort of conservative.

[cranked]

Sam Tanenhaus reminds me of Carville and his garbage prediction of “40 more years of Democrtic dominance.”

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Movement conservatism has died, Tanenhaus proclaims in this brief polemic, and movement conservatives killed it. "

A similar observation can be made regarding the Left.

Now that the Left is in control, protest and dissent--activities that were held as noble and patriotic for decades--are unpatriotic, disruptive and evil.

The Left has become the tyrannical system they were fighting against--far worse than anything even their most wild-eyed demonstrators warned against.