They Call us Leftists
2009 October 4
“Neocons are leftists in disguise,” claimed William H. Calhoun in an article a few years ago. The first impulse would be to dismiss the assertion with indignation. Surely few things could be more unpalatable or offensive than being called a leftist.
The more one reflects on the recent past, however, the more one realizes that Calhoun’s statement — an exaggeration though it may be — is not entirely groundless. If by a leftist we mean someone who expands government and the state, then surely we neoconservatives have displayed some leftist tendencies of late.
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