October 19, 2022
I know some of my dearest friends like David Frum because he wrote a book with some good insights, but I have never trusted him since I first started reading the National Review magazine via subscription (60s thru late 80s) and then online. He seemed eager to distant himself from the Bill Buckley style of rigorous, traditional, intellectual conservatism.
And now he has reinforced my antipathy by advocating that the US government confiscate and nationalize the private Starlink space internet company Elon Musk founded and has implemented without any government financing. David Frum has unmasked himself as a statist.
From the article: "Frum ... (is) a smart man (not to mention a talented writer); so I think he knows all this. His error is that he’s putting ends before means, which is a serious moral mistake. The bottom line is Starlink belongs to Elon Musk, not the US government, which has no right to it. Plunder, even when it is "legal,†doesn’t become just when the government does it."
The Establishmentarian Frum argues that Woodrow Wilson, the protofascist, nationalized some railroads in the lead-up to the First World War. So that makes it alright!
I guess he doesn't understand that bad precendent is not some eternal thing. By his reasoning we should bring slavery back, or re-establish Japanese internment camps, or move to restart the Indian wars.
What a dope.
This is all just a political hit on Musk. The Left hates him because he's committed to freedom of speech.
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