Lenin today

[Bradford DeLong]

>My experience with this crowd backs up what Tomasky (and Brock) says about
>the right -- they are really angry fuckers. I hung around a bunch of
>ex-Dartmouth Review editors in the early 90s, more out of curiosity than
>anything else (I'd read a ton of Review back issues and was intrigued by the
>mindset of its authors), and to a man they were pissed off about the
>culture, about liberals, about how they were perceived by others, and so on.
>They were also very nerdish and in quieter moments most insecure. I kinda
>felt sorry for them, but they made it hard for the sympathy to last.

Surely there are other people for whom it would be more constructive 
to feel sorrow? :-)

What I don't understand is their longevity: Why does Howard Kurtz 
quote Andrew Sullivan? Why didn't Dan Quayle fire William Kristol in 
March of 1989? These are things I genuinely do not understand...

Brad DeLong