Reihan defends Yuval Levin. Apparently, the sins of the administration Levin worked for are so well-documented that Levin just didn't feel it necessary to note them. Ooookaaay. Yes, there are benefits to partisanship and to debating within rough-and-ready party structures. But when partisanship became, as it did under Bush, a near-cult of orthodoxy covering up a massive betrayal of conservative principles, avoiding any mention of this legacy now seems deliberately, well, partisan.

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