One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.
David FrumCanada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.
David FrumReagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.
David FrumWorld War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.
David Frum