[fortheDeclaration]

Some of the crusterati have certainly given up on paleoconservative principled opposition to statism -- Christopher Buckley among them, like Alcibiades, the roue' son of Pericles, who went over to the Spartans and betrayed 10,000 of his fellow-citizens, with whose command he had been entrusted before his entirely self-induced disgrace and fall, to a degrading and pitiful death in battle and in slavery beneath the citadel of Syracuse.

A bit of a stretch don't you think?

LOL!

[lentulusgracchus]

Only in this, that Alcibiades shows the type expressed to its full, ghastly potential.

Alcibiades, the son of the "perfect citizen", early on catamitized himself (to Aristophanes, I think) as disclosed in the Symposium, and went on to become the completely smart-assed "preacher's son" of universal experience.

Here Christopher Buckley, as soon as his towering, intellectually invincible father dies, throws over the traces and offers himself up, rather like Alcibiades, to the polished poltroons of the Left.

Who knows how far his career in multifariousness will go? But we are on notice that it has begun.