David Frum

And I don't want to mock her for it.

It's a natural one.

She said trans-Pacific when she meant trans-Atlantic.

which is not such a big mistake, except the Trans-Pacific Partnership was a very specific piece of legislation that the left destroyed and that I, for one, lament.

And the Transatlantic Partnership is a much vaguer, more notional idea.

I thought I prefer the flop.

I love the flop.

I got excited about the Trans-Pacific part.

Be still my heart.

Let me move the camera a little bit from AOC and back more directly upon you.

So in politics, we have both red lines as individuals.

We have red lines, things we cannot accept, and green flags, things we believe in and are excited about.

Mine would include U.S.

global leadership of democratic nations, free trade abroad, free commerce at home, constitutional restraints on the government, but also fiscal responsibility, generally preferring government that taxes less.

No, the red lines are the things where you say, I will fight against this in the company of anybody.

And sometimes when you're battling the red lines, you can forget what your green flags were or should be or used to be.

In fact, this is the story of the first neoconservatives.

They began by being upset about disorder in the cities of the industrial Northeast and Midwest in the 1960s.

And pretty soon, they become completely different people with a kind of, Andrew Sullivan calls it the neocon slide.

And that's just natural, but it's also something that maybe you want to make sure I'm making my own decisions about where I go.