https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/jeff-flake-book-review.html

No. It was impotent, pious handwringing by an impotent man. Or it was simply posturing.

«In which case, perhaps I should soften my critique of my critique. It wasn’t that I was too kind to Flake when his book came out. It was that I mischaracterized his book altogether. “Conscience of a Conservative” was not a cri de coeur, a critique of Trump, an analysis of the sorry state of our politics or an invitation to recommit to Goldwater’s philosophy.

It was a relic. It was a bit of quixotica. It was a tragedy.»