Doug, re: twinkling It's sort of interesing that you moved from right to left. The usual pattern, seen from numerous communists who ended up as neo-cons, is to go from left to right. So your like the anti-Sidney Hook/Norman Podhoretz/Irving Kristol. There were a group of smart National Reviewers in the 1960s who moved to the left: Garry Wills, Joan Dideon, John Leonard, and (a bit eccentrically) Guy Davenport. Are there any other cases of people going from right to left?
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CB: Mussolini was a Socialist Party leader before founding Fascism.
Ramsey Clark was Attorney General for LBJ before becoming a champion of the Workers' World.