2. The Mugwumps were an elite 19th century faction that supported "good government" measures (in plain English: they wanted government sinecures to go to Yalies, not fresh-off-the-boat Irishmen). They were initially Republicans but shifted to Dems under Grover Cleveland
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3. The neo-cons have functioned exactly like the mugwumps, gaining power from connections to elite institutions (universities, think tanks) & shifting from party to party. It's often forgotten that neo-cons first emerged as faction inside Democratic Party.
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4. The earliest neo-cons were Cold War Liberals who opposed 1960s/1970s "new politics" of left (anti-war, black militancy, feminism, gay rights). Their institutional base was in Democratic institutions (AFL-CIO, office of Senator Scoop Jackson & Pat Moynihan).
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5. By my count, neo-cons have shifted parties 6 times: they went for Nixon in 1972, Carter in 1976, Reagan in 1980, a faction went for Clinton 1992, returned to Bush in 2000, and went for Clinton in 2016. Except 1 time, always opportunistically going with winner.
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6. Lasting institutional power of the neo-cons comes from the fact that they are underwritten by arms industries that have bipartisan support: the funders of think tanks etc. Their flexibility about partisan affiliation combined allows them to seed ideas in both parties.
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is he the one that was married to Liza Minnelli?
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Canadian immigrant David Frum who whines about other immigrants probably because they're "not the right kind of immigrants" like I'm assuming he thinks he is.
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Chimes in Canadian. We’re still sorry.
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.David is a war criminal and he never be allowed back into Canada. Canada went from contributing WW2's Top Spy to contributing David "Let me cash the Axis of Evil cheque first" Frum. Wr don't want him back and American should cook him in a large lobster pot.
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