The Trouble With David Cameron
Newly up on the front page — TAC literary editor Freddy Gray takes a cold-eyed looked at Conservative Party leader David Cameron, a man touted by some on the American Right as a model for bringing conservatism back into the mainstream. Not so fast, says Freddy…
Also on-line — “Counter Intelligence,” Philip Giraldi’s essay on the travails of a Central Intelligence Agency that has come to serve the interests of contractors and politicians better than those of the nation.
Look for the Feb. 23 TAC, featuring these articles and many more (including John Derbyshire on what talk radio has done to the Right), in stores soon. Or subscribe now and get instant access to the full issue in PDF form.
A fine article but I think it misses the point – Cameron, not Blair, seems to be more analogous to Obama. The substance of the article does much to illuminate the extent of the analogy, from Cameron’s comparable political skill to the real but manageable political weaknesses.
I enjoyed this article. As a Republican-voting American living in Reading, England I hope that the GOP don’t follow Cameron’s lead as he utterly uninspiring and seemingly has no solid policies. I think your final synopsis:
‘For now, the only lesson American conservatives can learn from David Cameron is that there are no lessons to be learned from David Cameron.’
is probably not too far from the truth.
Cameron’s efforts to modernise the Conservative Party are applaudable and it appears environmentalism and community protection are more closely aligned to core Tory principle than his reformers dared to initially conceive. Crunchy conservatism it is not though. Cameron is nothing more than a piece of lace blowing in the wind as his flip-flopping approach to the early stages of the economic crisis showed. He is a PR man; nothing more.