This was a reply to @Gnocchic Apocryphon, but also to @Daniel Oppenheimer and his post-left episode: https://danieloppenheimer.substack.com/p/what-was-the-post-left. Still a lot to work out later, but notes toward a better sociology of the current intellectual configuration. —- First of all, the Trotskyist dimension is essential to understanding the original neocons, though I am shakier on the Podhoretzes and Kristols than neocon-adjacent liberals like Daniel Bell and Seymour Martin Lipset....
