My pal v. has this response to Sullivan:
Your indignation at Krugman's comparison of Bush to Le Pen is misplaced. Consider the following points, which form part of the electoral platform of Le Pen's
Front National (available in French at lepen.tv):
-Eliminate the income tax
-Eliminate the inheritance tax
-Withdraw from international environmental treaties
-Recognize that human life begins at conception
-Outlaw abortion
-Eliminate civil unions for same-sex couples
-Reinstitute the death penalty
-Partially privatize the state pension system
Call Le Pen what you want, but don't try to tell us he wouldn't, if he were in the U.S., be right in the mainstream of the GOP.
So maybe Sullivan, and by implication Krugman, have points after all...
