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Entry: The New Face of National Review Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_trotskyist_hour#874 Post contents: Simply excellent! The best nutshelling of the position and analysis you have been providing us for years. If the neocons are driven by revolutionary zeal, they are far from the American red state mentality that has given them power. But their language (narrative, if you will) can be heard by the American heartland as essentially conservative, while the neocons mean nothing of the kind. The further funny thing is that it wouldn't even necessarily have to be malicious on the part of the neocons. When the neocons speak of America as a bright shining city on a hill leading the way out of the darkness and fighting fascism, they seem to be thinking in terms of the revolutionary spirit of the Jacobins. But the American heartlander hears it as homegrown healthy pride in one's country. And especially after 911, he thinks literally, "to hell with anyone who attacks my country" physically or verbally. The red stater is hearing the call to arms to protect his mother and the neocon is soliciting a call to arms to foment the revolution (democratic socialism I suppose) across the globe. Sent at: 2008 05 16