It is hard to imagine that the neocons will lose these
assets because they’ve been branding Trump a fascist or because they’re
unwilling to back the GOP presidential candidate, no matter who he or she is.
Powerbrokers in their own right, they don’t have to worry about passing litmus
tests. They enjoy unbroken control of the “conservative movement,” and benefit
from the demonstrable inability of a more genuine Right to displace them. Matthew
Richer asks whether Donald Trump’s election would spell “the end of NR’s
influence over the conservative movement in America.” The answer is an emphatic
no, unless those who distribute the funding for the neoconservative media
empire decide to close down this particular fixture. Otherwise Rich Lowry and
his buds will go on being funded as agents for disseminating neocon party
lines.
Moreover,
those featured in NR‘s printed issues and/or on its widely visited website are
routinely invited on to Fox-news and contribute to other interlocking
neoconservative enterprises. Rich Lowry and Jonah Goldberg will not be thrown
out of work, because they dumped toxic waste on Trump. And Max Boot will not lose
his position at the WSJ because of his over-the-top tirades against Trump,
after having railed non-stop for several weeks against Confederate monuments
and Confederate Battle Flags. There is nothing the neocons say when they’re
reaching leftward or revealing their leftist colors that the leftist media
aren’t also saying, even more stridently. Pointing out the silliness of neoconservative assertions
about history or the current age may help us deal with our irritation. It does
not mean that we can dissuade those who fund the neoconservatives from giving
them more money. They are being kept around not for their wisdom or the
elegance of their prose but because they are useful to the powerful and
rich…………..
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To those who hope to see the
neocons swept from power as Donald Trump and his backers prosper politically, I
am offering the sobering message that your expectations are unrealistic.
Although the neoconservatives can be challenged from the Right, such a
challenge can only work on the media level if the would-be counterforce is as
well-equipped as what it’s fighting. Simply saying that the neocons are losing
ground or are now in freefall won’t make one’s wish come to pass. Needless to
say, I’d be delighted if proven wrong in this matter.
