A few weeks ago we featured a dialogue between Josh Marshall and Horowitz. Wrapping it up I wrote this:
The answer to the question posed in the headline is simple: the “center-left” regards the patriotic Right (both American and Israeli) as a greater threat than Islamo-fascism. Thus in virtually every intellectual conflict between these two entities, the Left, which smugly identifies itself as “democratic” and even “patriotic,” refuses to join hands with conservatives in raising alarm about the threats to free societies from the Islamic jihad. It cannot stomach the idea of standing alongside evil conservatives like Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Horowitz, and Glenn Beck. We see again how with communism’s fall, leftism has devolved into nihilism: Just as the Palestinians want to destroy Israel more than they want their own state, leftists despise conservatives more than they care about protecting themselves and their families from Islamofascists. Marshall can say whatever he wants about his views on the subject but the number of articles at TPM bashing Israel and conservatives compared to the number highlighting Islamofascism’s brutality tells the real story about what his priorities are.
Now how is Frum really all that different from Marshall? The fact is this: Frum cares more about attacking fellow conservatives than he does defending America from the Left and Islamofascism. The articles featured at Frum Forum confirm this beyond dispute. Frum would rather trash important defenders of America like Sarah Palin, Beck, Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and now Horowitz than stand alongside them in the shared quest.
Frum’s days of charity at NRB are over. If his need to intellectually assault those on the Right who he disapproves of has now spilled over into the foreign policy sphere then he can no longer be trusted as a reliable ally in the most important fight of the day. We need people who are seriously concerned and engaged in preventing a second Holocaust. And Frum isn’t one of them. He’s too busy trying — and failing — to remake the Conservative Movement in his own image.
