Although I rarely agree with National Review columnist and conservative author Jonah Goldberg on social issues, foreign policy, or the nature of fascism—a topic on which both of us have written—I do enjoy his pleasantly glib style. But then he inevitably goes and says something that causes me to scratch my head in wonder.
The most recent example of this comes from a column in which Jonah expresses astonishment that anyone would consider Luther Strange's victorious opponent in the Alabama Republican primary, Judge Roy Moore, to be the more “conservative” of the two candidates. According to Goldberg, “Strange was more conservative than Moore but less bombastic.” The only proof we're given for such a counterintuitive statement is this: Moore opposed the president's proposal to repeal Obamacare, while Strange, we are led to believe, was a big fan of that bill.
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