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Or, if Reaganism prevails again, as it did in 1980, 84, 88, 94 and 2006, we could see the departure of the neocons from the GOP, to go back to their natural home in the Democratic Party, where they were once call Trotskyites.

Truly bizarre sentence. Those Trotskyite neocons voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and they weren't Trotskyites and Democrats in the same time period).

[Pelham]

“Truly bizarre sentence. Those Trotskyite neocons voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and they weren’t Trotskyites and Democrats in the same time period).”

There’s nothing bizarre about it at all. That’s a paraphrase of Irving Kristol’s own description of the origin of the neocon movement, of which he was the godfather.