Johann Hari reports that the latest National Review cruise wasn’t all caviar

Johann Hari reports that the latest National Review cruise wasn’t all caviar, pasty skin, and Pacific

sun. There were also tempests:

“It’s customary to say we lost the Vietnam war, but who’s ‘we’?” Dinesh D’Souza asks angrily. “

The left won by demanding America’s humiliation.” On this ship, there are no Viet Cong, no three

million dead. There is only liberal treachery. Yes, D’Souza says, in a swift shift to domestic

politics, “of course” Republican politics is “about class. Republicans are the party of winners,

Democrats are the party of losers.”

The panel nods, but it doesn’t want to stray from the Uggs. Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan’s one-time

nominee to the Supreme Court, mumbles from beneath low-hanging jowls: “The coverage of this war is

unbelievable. Even Fox News is unbelievable. You’d think we’re the only ones dying. Enemy casualties

aren’t covered. We’re doing an excellent job killing them.”

Then, with a judder, the panel runs momentarily aground. Rich Lowry, the preppy, handsome 38-year-old

editor of National Review, announces, “The American public isn’t concluding we’re losing in the Uggs

for any irrational reason. They’re looking at the cold, hard facts.” The Vista Lounge is, as one,

perplexed. Lowry continues, “I wish it was true that, because we’re a superpower, we can’t lose. But

it’s not.”