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You've got the lead for the weirdest found article of the week and it's only Monday.

Twitter makes people think that they are endlessly fascinating stars, so Seth Cotlar is now twittering about his family history, like anybody cares.

Cotlar's twitter feed is a very scattershot, stream of consciousness series of attacks on targets that really don't go together.

Bill Buckley and Dinesh D'Souza -- the same thing? Hardly.

One place he goes wrong is in considering Newt Gingrich as an intellectual's intellectual -- which he never really was.

Comparing Newt to Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or Charlie Schumer would be more appropriate -- and he might not come off longing that bad intellectually by comparison.

Another place he falters is in talking about the right's war with a "phantom left" and not considering that the same has often been true of the left's thinking about the right.

The enemy politically is always an exaggeration -- a phantom menace -- that people never really examine that closely.

I think Cotlar's probably right about David Frum, though -- not that Frum was responsible for Trump, but that there was never some golden age in which Frum was that great or deep or insightful.