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Derek Leaberry's avatar

Auron MacIntyre is spot on about the fungibility of the left regarding the Cheneys, a family that has been an enemy of the left for about fifty years. If Kamala Harris wins the presidency, Liz Cheney will be offered one of several jobs. CIA Director. National Security Advisor. Secretary of Defense. Secretary of State. Kamala Harris may nominally be called a liberal and Liz Cheney may nominally be called a conservative but why quibble about something so superficial. You may as well argue over the differences between Bud Light and Coors Light. Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney are united in their support for the world leftist establishment.

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Theodore Iacobuzio's avatar

On color revolutions: "Again: whatever that is, it’s not liberalism."

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think it's salutary to remember that this playbook didn't appear in a puff of smoke for Victoria Nuland to riffle. Remember FDR on Somoza: "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch". And the Kennedys and the Diems. And Jim Angleton and the Italian elections. There is a case to be made that the militarization of Kennan's very non-military notion of containment corrupted our foreign policy. Such habits are extremely hard to break. (I will say that if anybody can get that ball rolling it's J.D. Vance.) But at least there was a fig leaf of purpose around such skulduggery, namely, anti-Communism. Willfully to antagonize Russia because Putin bad moves it to a different plane altogether, one the spectre of nihilism may be said to haunt. Watching us push Russia into the arms of China in slow motion has been one of the most dispiriting things in my life.

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