New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari launched a broad intramural conservative dialogue last week with his short essay at First Things entitled, “Against David French-ism.” David French of National Review, as the eponymous personification of Ahmari’s ire, responded in kind. Many others within the right-of-center commentariat have also weighed in, including yours truly.
The dialogue launched by Ahmari is a broad-ranging and multifaceted one. In part, it is downstream of a purely attitudinal debate being aired between hard-edged, “own the libs”-style Trumpism and softer-edged, cheerily optimistic Reaganism. In part, it is a philosophical discussion about means-ends rationalizations. In part, it is an intellectual discussion about the continued political vitality and relevance of traditional William F. Buckley Jr.-inspired “Fusionism.”
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