Permit me to repeat: forty years ago in a Wall Street Journal column, the pioneering modern right-wing intellectual announced a main part of that cynical plan, presenting it as a defining fuck-you-chumps feature of the conservatives’ new approach: if tax cuts for the rich and big business “leave us with a fiscal problem,” Irving Kristol wrote, again with a smile, mammoth government debt is fine, because from now on “the neoconservative” would force “his opponents to tidy up afterwards.”
