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this small group of mostly Jewish intellectuals had completely captured the Republican Party. In the Reagan and George H.W. Bush years, realist James Baker, Chuck Hagel, Henry Kissinger

Kristol eviscerated realist school in the Republican Party. no realist left
exception is Dick Lugar

same in the House, other than Ron Paul

The 2012 Republicans, hook, line and sinker, Mitt Romney; Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty

Steve Clemons, Rita Hauser, Susan Eisenhower and Lincoln Chafee have all been exiled from the Republican Party

Even prominent Republican realist Brent Scowcroft, James Baker Henry Kissinger
sidelined

Irving Kristol refer to Reagan, as “an appeaser

More amazing, Jewish group of neoconservative intellectuals take over without delivering votes

neoconservatives have taken over the foreign policy apparatus of the Democratic Party

Obama ramped up Afghanistan, increased covert Taliban in fghanistan and Pakistan, increased drone attacks, hasn't closed Guantanamo, sold weapons to Taiwan. Dalai Lama, moratorium on domestic spending, growth in military spending

path on Iran imposing sanctions which is a precursor to attack on Iran, abandoned rhetorical pressure on Israel, condemning the Goldstone Report

neoconservatives own the Democratic Party

Howard Berman and Illeana Ros-Lehtinen in the House on March 4th pass a resolution condemning Turkey for the Armenian Genocide

John Kerry was powerless to stop sanctions bill on Iran’s importation of gasoline

FRUM

I have always been intrigued by the neoconservative network and how it so successfully commandeered the helm of America's national security establishment after having been for many decades mostly a small boutique shop of high octane intellectuals hanging out in Irving Kristol & Gertrude Himmelfarb's apartment.

Frum is pretty far from the current imperial line of original
neoconservatism -- Irving Kristol, Albert Wohlstetter, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Seymour Martin Lipset, and a few others

more heir apparent, Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, a few of the Kagans
Robert Kagan, who is a genuine intellectual rather than an apparatchik
flame out

surf Tea Party populism and to stay powerful by associating with a growing pugnacious, anti-intellectual movement

Frum may have an opportunity to replace the know-nothing brain of a Republican Party whose blustery, intolerant celebration of an anachronistic "whites dominate" nativism
disaffected neoconservatives

Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Kenneth Adelman. Frum is building, Fukuyama could play. Robert Kagan a writing intellectual