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If you have a chance check out Commentary Magazine published by the quite left American Jewish Committee. When they hired Norman Podhoretz to be its editor he was a somewhat radical liberal but definitely not communist. The events of the 1960s definitely ripped the relationship between Podhoretz (and his wife Midge Decter) and the left but Podhoretz was such an outstanding editor in chief that the AJC kept him on until his retirement at 65 in 1995 and then hired his son to replace him. The Wikipedia article on him notes that he wrote a piece on Sarah Palin for the Wall Street Journal, in his capacity as a leading New York City Jewish intellectual saying that he would far sooner be governed by Sarah Palin as POTUS than by Barack Obozo.

When one of his sons was the target of a homosexual proposition, he and his wife reacted as You or I might. Midge Decter also wrote a book about Red Diaper babies called Liberal Parents, Radical Children shortly thereafter in her early days as a conservative. She knew and was disgusted by so many of them even when she herself was still a liberal.

"Neo-conservative" is properly used to describe those former liberal former Democrats who were brought over by the communist seizure of the Democrat Party.

Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol is the son of Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, a brilliant social historian of the Victorian Age in her own right.

Nice summary of the genealogy of Commentary and the neocons in general. I grew up with a lot of those people.

Why do you suppose Commentary has taken such a hard, harsh anti-Trump line? Is Commentary a big open borders mag?