The migration of the former staff of the Weekly Standard

I have no comments on most of these people because of the ones with which I am familiar, I agree with your categorization. Obviously, I cannot define the ones I don't know well. Max Boot and Bill Kristol should have learned to code. They are reliably wrong on everything they say or write. Tucker has jumped the shark, as they say. He always had a certain wackiness, but was willing to challenge power. His current concept of challenging power is to align with seriously demented people. Makes one wonder if he hasn't found his comfort level.

I think I would move Robert Kagan to the NT category. Fred Kagan I think is Trump ambivalent unlike his brother who is a firm believer in the value of "expertise of the international community consensus".

As for Joesph bottom I would put him in the Trump agnostic category. I don't even think I have seen him even comment on anything political in any of his ramblings.

I still have my Weekly Standard baseball cap. It's a good quality cap, too, but it needs a trip through the washing machine.

Great post. Excellent.

Michael Medved voted for Harris.

I wanted Ted Cruz because I wanted an expert on the Federal Reserve and civics. The problem is we have printed too much money and we have too much government to be idealistic in that sense. The Republicans that aren't Crazy Right and have gone against Trump don't appreciate this. The GOP jumped the shark in 2004 when Bush promised Medicare part D so he could win and finish off Iraq. It was a $9 trillion instant unfunded liability.

I was mesmerized by Tucker when he was on the morning weekend show. I was less thrilled when he got his own show. Now he's nuts. I don't get it.

I wish I could talk to David Frum and Bill Kristol CIA-style. What in the hell did they ever actually believe?

Frank Monaldo (View Post):

Are these categories sufficient?

I write on behalf of a small group of us to thank you for asking for our input, and to give our regrets.

Now, the list of allowed values for the ordinal attribute “position on the [?] spectrum’” sound as though they would suitable to most folks.

But we are those poor few Ricocheteers who were irreversibly indoctrinated by a lifetime in the data processing industry into the logically inviolable principles of data definition, according to which the attribute itself is unacceptable. (Because, we were taught, data has to be defined before it is logically possible to collect it. The rule stuck is in our heads like the moral of a Brothers Grimm fable.)