Talk:Max Boot

Conservative in lead
IP editors keep taking this out, eg here. While labels can be contentious and/or meaningless, I don't see that this one is; rather it is an informative description of his political position and background. It is how he is regularly described and self-identifies, and including it at the outset explains a pretty basic fact about him to any reader straightaway. The USA Today column referenced doesn't have him denying being one, just him saying that Trump has "disfigured the ... movement".  N-HH   talk / edits  14:45, 1 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I think it helps the reader, which should be our highest priority. As recently as last week, Boot described himself as a former "smart-alecky young conservative" who isn't as young as he was when he attended college and who has "had [his] consciousness raised", and wrote that he "remain[s] a classical liberal". (See Classical liberalism, especially the sections on the meaning of the term and the United States, for information about why "classical liberal" means "conservative".) — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 15:56, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It certainly helped me. I came here pretty unaware of him, and was left none the wiser from the lead as to where he stood in terms of US politics. "Conservative" is a broad label, but precisely because of that it narrows things down a bit without doing so too much. Googling the term with his name leaves little doubt that this is what he is usually described as. Hence WP should follow that.  N-HH   talk / edits  12:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Pretty nonsensical to leave out "conservative" from the lede - according to his own biography "He was a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2007–08, Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2011–12, and Marco Rubio’s campaign in 2015-2016." and his new book is "The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right" link.  We need not make him out to be a "right winger" but he certainly has tended conservative throughout his career. Bdushaw (talk) 14:22, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

This guy Boot is hardly a "conservative," and a far more accurate description of his Weltbild would be that he is a Trump-hater now who at one time in the distant past held some conservative positions. Wikipedia is very well established as a pro-Left source, and it just underscores the essential political bias of Wikipedia to have an article pretending that Boot is a "conservative" in order to invigorate his critique of Trump. I post these true remarks in the hope that Wikipedia can remove its political bias and actually start to serve as a neutral source of information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.152.216.213 (talk) 21:27, 15 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I think he officially no longer identifies as conservative.T. Anthony (talk) 10:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Boot was never a genuine conservative, of course. He seems really to be a person with a MA in military history who favors war, and that is consistent with another part of his biography -- id est, that he has never personally been to war as a soldier.

Promotional
This article is extremely promotional for Boot's career from the personal website link to the inset box with videos of him talking. Needs work to have a neutral point of view. Nweil (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
A new user who says he is the subject, has been editing the article. I left the user a note on their talk page asking them to use this talk page. Malerooster (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)