The original neoconservatives, neoliberals and liberal hawks criticized liberals, leftists and defeatists for parasitic negativism -- for sneering at the USA, capitalism and the military while living off of them, like fleas irritating their host while sucking away. The claim was that privileged radical chic critics had no positive proposals but only criticisms of the necessary imperfections of the people who actually got things done.
Fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite them, and the neo * critique is a parody of itself when the critics' critics become focused on the the critique of criticism and neglect to make positive proposals.
Ezra Klein presents "a challenge to these hawks to say what they think, not merely what they think about what others think."
No need ask if anyone has noticed that the lesser fleas have still lesser fleas
And so ad infinitum in comments ?
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