The main complaint about so-called neocons is that they're wrong on foreign policy. They prioritize foreign interests over American interests. And that's unpopular, so they hurt us at the ballot box. You could grant all of that for the sake of argument, but at least they vote Republican and encourage others to do the same. Any help they give to the left is the unintended result of their being unpopular; it's not because they're malicious.
The same can't be said of those on the "new right" who encouraged their followers to vote for Democrats, celebrated when Democrats won, and openly took credit for helping them. They didn't hurt the GOP by mistake. They did it on purpose. They did it for power. They did it out of spite. They did it to watch the GOP burn.
You can find fault with both groups. There's plenty of blame to go around. But only one of them engaged in deliberate, sustained sabotage. To pretend that's not what happened — to give the saboteurs a pass, or worse, a promotion to the head of the movement, as if they were somehow vindicated for predicting an outcome they did everything in their power to guarantee — is suicidal insanity.
The same can't be said of those on the "new right" who encouraged their followers to vote for Democrats, celebrated when Democrats won, and openly took credit for helping them. They didn't hurt the GOP by mistake. They did it on purpose. They did it for power. They did it out of spite. They did it to watch the GOP burn.
You can find fault with both groups. There's plenty of blame to go around. But only one of them engaged in deliberate, sustained sabotage. To pretend that's not what happened — to give the saboteurs a pass, or worse, a promotion to the head of the movement, as if they were somehow vindicated for predicting an outcome they did everything in their power to guarantee — is suicidal insanity.
