“Hoo boy!” as Albert the Alligator of “Pogo” fame used to say. Mark Gauvreau Judge stirred up a storm in the American Spectator with an article deploring the conflation of conservatism with populism. Judge is the author of two recent books, God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling , and Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington’s Only World Series Championship .
He also wants it to be known that he is something of a sophisticate. Playing with last year’s fashion of the “metrosexual,” he calls himself a metroconservative, or metrocon for short. Reflecting on a mindlessly vulgar but extremely popular song, he writes:
