A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol’s saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality especially by a reality that is plain to the vast bulk of ordinary people but remains inexplicably invisible to liberal intellectuals and politicians.
<p>Siegel's work lamented what he saw as the failure of liberal regimes to safeguard urban quality of life and lambasted the indulgence of rioting. Those views led him to support Rudolph Giuliani's mayoral administration and remain relevant to discussions of social disorder in cities today. </p>
His books traced his ideological transformation from a Democratic Socialist in New York to neoconservative partisan for Rudolph Giuliani and Donald Trump.