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Hey, remember 10 years ago back when David Brooks wrote a column disavowing “neo-conservative” as a political label, insisting that “In truth, the people labeled neocons . . . travel in widely different circles and don’t actually have much contact with one another,” arguing that “If you ever read a sentence that starts with ‘Neocons believe,’ there is a 99.44 percent chance everything else in that sentence will be untrue,” and directly mocking people writing about “neoconservative” influence on the Bush administration in the most abusive terms possible, as “full-mooner” anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists? Boy howdy, that was a time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/brooks-the-neocon-revival.html?_r=0 “The conservatism that Kristol was referring to is neoconservatism. Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. Conservatism was at its peak when the neocons were dominant and nearly every problem with the Republican Party today could be cured by a neocon revival. . . .” ~David Brooks (2013)