Almost daily Corner bashing

Jonah Goldberg:

I agree with David [Frum] that populism is a useful and healthy passion when aimed at the liberal elite. But conservatives can get drunk on it when they proclaim that elites are bad simply because they are elites. Conservatives respect authority — the authority of ideas, traditions, morals, religion, customs, reason, law, excellence and so on. One cannot believe in this kind of authority while having a blanket hostility to elitism in any form.

Indeed. One of those respect-deserving elites, after all, is Jonah Goldberg, whose new book, Liberal Fascism would do, um, wonders, for the conservative movement if its leaders toted it around like a bible and embraced it for its... authority.

Meanwhile, here's an article by David Freddoso, riddled with stuff--"In essence, Democrats are capitulating on the Iraq question for a second time this year, after being elected with a clear mandate to hasten the unpopular war’s end — a bitter double-defeat that comes after dozens of symbolic votes on the war"--that's infuriating to read when it's written by a conservative... and that's factually wrong about one or two things.