No clowning around ....
Irving Kristol (Bill’s pappy) the “godfather of neoconservatives” was a Trotskyite.
Kristol was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of non-observant Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Bessie (Mailman) and Joseph Kristol.
He received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1940, where he majored in history and was part of a small but vocal Trotskyist anti-Soviet group who eventually became the New York Intellectuals.
They were anti-Soviet because Trotsky urged an international war by communists against capitalist, bourgeois countries while Stalin wanted to consolidate a rather shaky hold on a very large landmass.
They don’t like to be called liberals or socialists, preferring to be called progressives; in fact, Kristol & Co. actually have the temerity to call themselves conservatives.
But we know why “neocons” constantly urge war all over the globe and applaud people like Obama and Clinton, while ignoring our own borders and the Weal of the American people. And we know what they really are: Reds, neo-communists.