‘The descent into scumdom is a slippery slope, as

(Harry) Stein notes in his charming new memoir, How I

Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing

Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace)…His

fellow converts from the pre-fab liberalism of their

youth will know what he means. One day you get

an inkling that maybe affirmative action isn’t very

fair; the next thing you know, you’re joining the

NRA, even though you hate guns…Like the good conservative he now is, he

blames it all on a woman…’