Huh, big if true. So let’s review: Pat Buchanan was a family friend. I worked for and dined with William F Buckley, worked at National Review for 20 years, was the founding editor of National Review Online, was the CPAC Conservative Journalist of the Year, was asked to write the Foreward to ISI’s reissue of “What is Conservatism?” I had dinner at Judge Bork’s home. I’ve been a keynote speaker at the Philadelphia Society, I’m a senior fellow at AEI. I was a substitute host on Crossfire for Robert Novak. Tucker Carlson used to tell me all the time I was the smartest person he knew. I was a regular contributor the Claremont Review of Books and they asked me to review their anniversary collection of essays and ran ads of my endorsements. My books have been endorsed by Marco Rubio, Newt Gingrich, Tom Wolfe, et al. Hell, I’ve even “met” JD Vance. And I’m not even trying to make my case here.