There will be no careful platonic abstractions as in David Brooks (CP) or the self-cultivated superiority and contempt of the Great Will: for the Good Doctor (GD) is through and through a Neo-Conservative zealot, incapable of anything but the killer instinct, in matters political. War is reducible to the idea, the reality of friend/enemy, a durable political insight of Carl Schmitt. And here that lesson is not lost on the GD. In his column he is settling old scores with his enemies, and the list is long on transgressors; who might dare to question rhetoric as related to actual behavior, rational or irrational, to persons rational or irrational.  That GD lacks a certain intellectual finesse is given a full exposition: GD never misses an opportunity to attempt to annihilate his opponents, for failing to recognize his exceptional nature, of being and thought. The myopia, even the bad faith, exercised by his opponents is the subject of his extreme sanction; one might argue that he cannot emancipate himself from his faith in his unwavering moral/political rightness.