“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.
Who gets called neocons nowadays is hard to say, but they probably don't have Trotskyite pasts.
My point in posting was that Kristol and the few other people in his group were solid Reagan supporters in their day, so no need to attack them on that score.