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Such cultural crusades might seem to appeal mostly to the far-right fringe, but Breitbart is tapping a deep reservoir of conservative dismay. Former Bush Administration official (and TIME contributor) David Frum says, "What matters to [conservatives] is not why the government is spending $15 million on this or that. What matters is a perception that hostile forces are invading your home, school and family. Those forces come in on TV and in newspapers. An enormous amount of what conservatism now does is media criticism...
...forth. "You cannot dictate beliefs to people," Keene says. "What you can do is say, Here's a cohesive set of values and beliefs that have tied us together ... We'd love to have you share them with us." That sort of courtship, says conservative commentator David Frum, reflects the determination of the Beltway insiders to dig in their heels against efforts to remake a party they've helped build. "It's the last stand of the old guard," he says. "It looks to me like an attempt to reassert that the politics of the Reagan coalition can continue...
...Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute...
...code for terrorist detainees, and personal courage by spending his annual three-week Air National Guard stint in Afghanistan, studying the prison at Bagram. Usually, journalists don't qualify for Teddy Awards, since they tend to be critics rather than denizens of the arena, but the conservative columnist David Frum - a Bush Administration speechwriter, who coined the phrase "axis of evil" - honored his intellectual principles by standing up against the radical excesses of his party's demagogues. Let's hope that other honorable conservatives rise to join Frum and Graham in rebuilding an intellectually supple and civil, and essential, Republican...
...former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute