Source: The American Conservative
by George D O’Neill Jr.
“It’s clear the neoconservative movement, reeling from embarrassing defeats in public opinion, has been pivoting towards a rebrand. Seeking to salvage relevance, they’ve enlisted compliant voices like [Josh] Hammer to seduce America First conservatives to their pro-war project. They talk about the failure of past adventures abroad as the honey for young Americans looking homeward, with the goal of keeping them tethered to Israel’s misadventures in the Middle East. … Hammer’s youth affords him some distance from previous boomer-supported neoconservative failures and allows him, with little cost, occasionally to criticize the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters in order to claim the wars du jour, such as Israel’s escalating clash with Iran, are different and somehow in America’s interest. This whole effort is designed to capture younger thinkers to the Israel-First fold.” (07/04/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/josh-hammers-neocon-lite-playbook/