I read this entire transcript and the words of my Grand Father came into my mind when I was a young boy. “Never try to analyze insanity”.
a Canadian-American neoconservative[3] political commentator. A speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum later became the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency.[4] He is a senior editor at The Atlantic and also a CNN contributor.
graduated from the University of Toronto Schools in 1978 where he was the school captain. At Yale University, he simultaneously earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in history, graduating in 1982. He was in Directed Studies, a type of "Great Books" curriculum. Frum earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Harvard Law School in 1987.
Frum's first book, Dead Right, was released in 1994. It "expressed intense dissatisfaction with supply-siders, evangelicals, and nearly all Republican politicians." Frank Rich of the New York Times described it as "the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement," William F. Buckley, Jr. found it "the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation
How did someone so smart get to be so stupid? The problem is that he thinks that the way you learn to govern is to go to the right schools and argue position papers with the right people.
The guy never DID anything in his life. Build a high rise building in NY and on a budget and schedule and location and tenancy structure that you make lots of money and have lots of happy tenants? Or run Exxon? Or run the USMC?
You reminded me of the many times my Grandfather told me, "Remember to turn out the lights, Billy. I gonna go upstairs and bang your Grandma."
;^)
“Never try to analyze insanity”.
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That would make an excellent tag line.