Thirty years ago (1995), Irving Kristol wrote that a 'neoconservative' was a liberal mugged by reality. Badenoch says he talked of a conservative being a liberal mugged by reality in 2005. She says she is 'not a neocon' in quoting the 'godfather of neoconservatism' as to why he was a neoconservative - ThreadSky

Weren't neocons ex trotsky lot

LOTO benefitted from crowd-sourced fact-checking of the pre-released extracts, so Badenoch removed the Kristol misquote from the speech delivered

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenkb.bsky.social/post/3liyollcp422y

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sundersays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Badenoch did (mis)quote Kristol, despite the overnight tweets and posts to note he said "a neoconservative" rather than "a conservative"
https://bsky.app/profile/roberthutton.co.uk/post/3liypfqzods2l

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roberthutton.co.uk•1 day ago

No! It was in there!

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planetjanet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Has she started releasing her speeches now so that others will do the fact checking homework for her?

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mattsteinglass.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here's "Mugged by reality" being used in 1988 in an article about being a neoconservative in Reason https://reason.com/1988/03/01/mugged-by-reality/

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mattsteinglass.bsky.social•1 day ago

In fact the piece is about how Paul Weaver became disenchanted with neoconservatism for being insufficiently anti-liberal, and switched to being a libertarian. My sense is that the title is reappropriating the phrase "mugged by reality" which was by then probably long in use by neocons.

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