Why doesn't this surprise me?
If nothing else, Trump's nomination has finally gotten a lot of neoconservatives to drop the "conservative" charade and show their true left-internationalist colors for all to see.
///If nothing else, Trump’s nomination has finally gotten a lot of neoconservatives to drop the “conservative” charade and show their true left-internationalist colors for all to see.///
Trump has his flaws, but he has been the light flipped on in the kitchen that has sent the cockroaches scurrying in all directions.
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James Kirchick | Foreign Policy Initiative
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James Kirchick is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative. A journalist and foreign correspondent now based in Washington, he has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe and the Caucasus.
For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, lobbying, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Following The New Republic, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Prague, writing about the politics and cultures of the 21 countries in RFE/RL’s broadcast region. Among the stories he covered were the fraudulent 2010 presidential election in Belarus, ethnic cleansing in Kyrgyzstan, and the Libyan Civil War.
Kirchick’s writing has appeared in The Weekly Standard, The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, World Affairs, Commentary, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. He is a Daily Beast correspondent, a columnist for Ha’aretz and the New York Daily News, and writes the “Continental Drift” column on Europe for Tablet. His writing has also been published in Britain’s Prospect and Spectator, Canada’s National Post, the Czech Republic’s Lidove Noviny and The Australian.
Kirchick has previously worked for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill. A leading voice on American gay politics and international gay rights, he is a recipient of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year Award. He was a 2012-2013 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin, and has previously been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow.
Kirchick was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale College in 2006.