David Frum

Born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family, Frum is the son of the late Barbara Frum (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada, and the late Murray Frum, a dentist, who later became a real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector. His father's parents migrated from Poland to Toronto in 1930.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/28/toronto_developer_murray_frum_died_monday_at_the_age_of_81.html |title=Murray Frum, developer and philanthropist, died Monday at age 81 |last=Winsa |first=Patty |work=Toronto Star |date=May 28, 2013 |access-date=January 3, 2017}} Frum's sister, Linda Frum, was a member of the Senate of Canada. Frum also has an adopted brother, Matthew, from whom he is estranged. He is married to the writer Danielle Crittenden, the stepdaughter of former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington. The couple have three children.{{Cite book|title=Comeback: Conservatism that can win again|author=Frum, David|chapter=about the author}} His daughter Miranda died in February 2024, age 32, from complications of a 2019 brain tumor.{{Cite tweet |number=1763927946526433441 |user=davidfrum |title=My wife Danielle and I lost our beloved daughter Miranda on February 16. Miranda died at age 32 of complications from a 2019 brain tumor operation. The funeral was held in Toronto on February 21 and can be viewed here. https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails?snum=140038&fg=0 |first=David |last=Frum}}https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1763927946526433441{{Cite web|url=http://obituaries.thestar.com//obituary/miranda-frum-1089401179/|title=Remembering the life of MIRANDA FRUM|website=obituaries.thestar.com}}{{Cite news |last=Frum |first=David |date=2024-03-21 |title=Miranda's Last Gift |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/david-frum-miranda-daughter-grief/677815/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |work=The Atlantic |language=en |issn=2151-9463}} He is a distant cousin of economist Paul Krugman.{{cite news|url=https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/david-frum-aei-heritage-and-health-care/|title=David Frum, AEI, Heritage And Health Care|author-link=Paul Krugman|first=Paul|last=Krugman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 25, 2010|access-date=January 14, 2011}}

At age 14, Frum was a campaign volunteer for an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate Jan Dukszta for the 1975 provincial election. During the hour-long commute each way to and from the campaign office in western Toronto, he read a paperback edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, which his mother had given to him. "My campaign colleagues jeered at the book—and by the end of the campaign, any lingering interest I might have had in the political left had vanished like yesterday's smoke."

Frum was educated at Yale University, where he took the Directed Studies program.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frum returned to Toronto as an associate editor of Saturday Night.{{cite news |url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dead-wrong/ |last=McCarthy |first=Daniel |date=January 28, 2008 |work=The American Conservative |title=Dead Wrong |access-date=February 10, 2017}} He was an editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1989 until 1992, and then a columnist for Forbes magazine in 1992–94. In 1994–2000, he worked as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as a contributing editor at neoconservative opinion magazine The Weekly Standard, and as a columnist for Canada's National Post. He worked also as a regular contributor for National Public Radio. In 1996, he helped organize the "Winds of Change" in Calgary, Alberta, an early effort to unite the Reform Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.Canadian Press, "Reform, Tories should merge, right-wing group says", The Globe and Mail, May 15, 1996

Following the 2000 election of George W. Bush, Frum was appointed to a position as a speechwriter within the White House. He would later write that when he was first offered the job by chief Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson,

{{Blockquote|text=I believed I was unsuited to the job he was offering me. I had no connection to the Bush campaign or the Bush family. I had no experience in government and little of political campaigns. I had not written a speech for anyone other than myself. And I had been only a moderately enthusiastic supporter of George W. Bush ... I strongly doubted he was the right man for the job.{{cite news |url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/axis-of-ego/ |title=Axis of Ego |last=Novak |first=Robert D. |date=March 24, 2003 |work=The American Conservative |access-date=February 10, 2017}}}}

While still a Canadian citizen, he was one of the few foreign nationals working within the Bush White House. He filed for naturalization and took the oath of citizenship on September 11, 2007. Frum served as special assistant to the president for economic speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. Conservative commentator Robert Novak described Frum as an "uncompromising supporter of Israel" and "fervent supporter of Ariel Sharon's policies" during his time in the White House. Frum is credited by his wife with inventing the expression "Axis of Evil", which Bush introduced in his 2002 State of the Union address.{{cite web|title=Proud wife turns 'axis of evil' speech into a resignation letter|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/27/usa.matthewengel|date=February 27, 2002|work=The Guardian|first=Matthew|last=Engel|access-date=October 3, 2011}} During Frum's time at the White House, he was described by commentator Ryan Lizza as being part of a speechwriting brain trust that brought "intellectual heft" and considerable policy influence to the Bush Administration.{{cite news |title=Write Hand|url=http://www.thenewrepublic.com/052101/lizza052101.html|date=May 11, 2001|magazine=The New Republic|first=Ryan|last=Lizza|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020220104855/http://www.thenewrepublic.com/052101/lizza052101.html|archive-date=February 20, 2002|url-status=dead}}

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Frum hosted pseudonymous Muslim apostate and critic of Islam, Ibn Warraq at an hour-and-a-half lunch at the White House.{{cite web|title=Holy War|url=http://prospect.org/article/holy-war|date=December 19, 2001|work=The American Prospect|first=Chris|last=Mooney|access-date=July 17, 2016}}

While serving in the Bush White House and afterward, Frum strongly supported the Iraq War by furthering the conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein was in league with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} In later years, however, he would express regret for that endorsement, saying that it owed more to psychological and group identity factors than reasoned judgment:

"It's human nature to assess difficult questions, not on the merits, but on our feelings about the different 'teams' that form around different answers. To cite a painful personal experience: During the decision-making about the Iraq war, I was powerfully swayed by the fact that the proposed invasion of Iraq was supported by those who had been most right about the Cold War—and was most bitterly opposed by those who had been wrongest about the Cold War. Yet in the end, it is not teams that matter. It is results. As Queen Victoria's first prime minister bitterly quipped after a policy fiasco: 'What wise men had promised has not happened. What the damned fools predicted has actually come to pass.'"{{cite news|last1=Frum|first1=David|title=Opinion: Controversial Immigration Report May Be Right|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/opinion/frum-heritage-report-immigration/|access-date=April 24, 2017|publisher=CNN|date=May 14, 2013}}

He also later acknowledged that it remains unclear how the US "could have delivered better success in Iraq" in terms of replacing Saddam with a "more humane and peaceful" government.{{Cite web|last=Frum|first=David|date=2019-05-15|title=Take It From an Iraq War Supporter—War With Iran Would Be a Disaster|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/the-iraq-war-was-a-failurewar-with-iran-would-be-worse/589534/|access-date=2020-06-14|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US}}

Frum left the White House in February 2002. Commentator Robert Novak, appearing on CNN, claimed that Frum was dismissed because his wife had emailed friends, saying that her husband had invented the "axis of evil" phrase. Frum and the White House denied Novak's allegation.{{cite news |last1=Engel|first1=Matthew|title=Proud wife turns 'axis of evil' speech into a resignation letter|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/27/usa.matthewengel |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=October 3, 2011}}

Frum opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court of the United States, on the grounds that she was insufficiently qualified for the post, as well as insufficiently conservative.{{Cite news|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjM1NDExNTgwNmFkYjc5ODJkNWFjNTdmYzg0MDIyMGQ=|title=Madame Justice|last=Frum|first=David|date=October 3, 2005|work=National Review|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004003034/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjM1NDExNTgwNmFkYjc5ODJkNWFjNTdmYzg0MDIyMGQ%3D|archive-date=October 4, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

Shortly after leaving the White House, Frum took up a position as a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a neoconservative think tank. During the early days of his stint there, Frum coauthored An End to Evil with Richard Perle, which presented a neoconservative view of global affairs and an apologia of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

His position lasted from 2003 until March 25, 2010, when his paid position was terminated and he declined to accept the offer of a non-paying position. Frum later stated that he was asked to leave AEI because of his vocal criticism of the Republican party's no-holds-barred opposition to Obamacare.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/the-republican-waterloo/520833/ |title=The Republican Waterloo |first=David |last=Frum |work=The Atlantic |date=March 24, 2017 |access-date=July 25, 2017}}

In 2005, Frum faced a libel lawsuit filed by the Canadian chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations after he suggested in a column for the National Post that CAIR was sympathetic to terrorists. Frum first vowed to fight the lawsuit, but instead the paper published an editor's note acknowledging that "neither Sheema Khan nor the Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada advocates or promotes terrorism."{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/sep/28/20050928-120746-4770r/?page=all|title=Inside Politics|newspaper=The Washington Times|access-date=May 4, 2016}}File:David Frum.jpg]]

On October 11, 2007, Frum announced on his blog that he was joining Rudolph Giuliani's presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.

On November 16, 2008, The New York Times reported that Frum would be leaving National Review, where he was a contributing editor and online blogger.{{cite news |url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDAwODAyZGVlMTRlMzkyZjFlMjY1MGQwOGM2OTU0YzU |title=Signing Off |last=Frum |first=David |date=January 18, 2009 |access-date=February 10, 2017 |work=National Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204182434/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDAwODAyZGVlMTRlMzkyZjFlMjY1MGQwOGM2OTU0YzU%3D |archive-date=February 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Frum announced to readers of his blog that he would be starting a new political website, NewMajority.com, describing it as "a group blog, featuring many different voices. Not all of them ... conservatives or Republicans." He hoped the site would "create an online community that will be exciting and appealing to younger readers, a generation often repelled by today's mainstream conservatism." The website was launched on January 19, 2009. On October 31, 2009, its title was changed to FrumForum, to avoid confusion with other political organizations that used "New Majority" in their names.{{cite news|last=Frum|first=David|title=A Note to Readers|url=http://www.frumforum.com/a-note-to-readers/|newspaper=FrumForum|date=November 3, 2009|access-date=March 8, 2018|archive-date=March 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309054104/http://www.frumforum.com/a-note-to-readers/|url-status=dead}} In 2012 it was merged into The Daily Beast, where his blog continued. Citing personal reasons shortly after the deaths of his father and father-in-law, Frum suspended his blog on June 3, 2013Frum, David (June 3, 2013). [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/03/all-good-things.html "All Good Things"]. The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 27, 2013 but resumed writing for The Daily Beast in September 2013.{{cite news|author=David Frum |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/04/don-t-call-it-a-frum-back-what-s-changed-after-three-months-away.html |title=Don't Call It a Frum-Back: What's Changed After Three Months Away |website=The Daily Beast |date=September 4, 2013 |access-date=May 4, 2016}}

Frum joined The Atlantic as a senior editor in March 2014. During the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Frum issued a series of tweets labeling as "fake" a photo of two blood-covered Palestinian youths bringing their father's body to a hospital in Khan Younis; the man had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. Frum apologized on The Atlantic.{{cite magazine|date=July 30, 2014|title=An Apology: On Images From Gaza|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2014/07/an-apology-on-the-images-emerging-from-gaza/375324/|magazine=The Atlantic|access-date=May 4, 2016}} Frum was criticized by Washington Post media writer Erik Wemple{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/07/30/the-difficulty-with-david-frums-apology-for-bogus-photo-fakery-allegations/|title=The difficulty with David Frum's apology for bogus photo-fakery allegations|last=Wemple|first=Erik|date=July 30, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 4, 2016}} and by fellow correspondent for The Atlantic, James Fallows, who termed Frum's tweets "a major journalistic error."{{cite magazine|title=James Fallows|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows/|magazine=The Atlantic|access-date=May 4, 2016}}

On November 2, 2016, he announced that he had voted for Hillary Clinton for president.{{cite news|last1=Revesz|first1=Rachael|title=George W Bush's speechwriter says he voted for Hillary Clinton|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/david-frum-george-w-bush-speechwriter-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-vote-endorse-george-w-bush-a7394676.html|access-date=November 4, 2016|work=The Independent|date=November 3, 2016}}

On November 6, 2024, Frum announced that he had left the Republican Party following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election.{{Cite web |last=Fortinsky |first=Sarah |date=2024-11-06 |title=The Atlantic's David Frum leaves the Republican Party |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4977873-the-atlantic-david-frum-leaves-gop-after-trump-victory/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}

Frum's first book, Dead Right, was released in 1994. It "expressed intense dissatisfaction with supply-siders, evangelicals, and nearly all Republican politicians", according to a negative review by a Frum opponent, Robert Novak. Frank Rich of The New York Times described it as "the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement," William F. Buckley, Jr. found it "the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation," and in 2008, Daniel McCarthy of The American Conservative called it "a crisply written indictment of everything its author disliked about conservatism in the early '90s."

He is also the author of What's Right (1996) and How We Got Here (2000), a history of the 1970s, which "framed the 1970s in the shadow of World War II and Vietnam, suggesting, 'The turmoil of the 1970s should be understood ... as the rebellion of an unmilitary people against institutions and laws formed by a century of war and the preparation for war.'" Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report praised How We Got Here, noting that "more than any other book ... it shows how we came to be the way we are." John Podhoretz described it as "compulsively readable" and a "commanding amalgam of history, sociology and polemic."

In January 2003 Frum released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. Frum also discussed how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the president: "George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man." His book An End to Evil was co-written with Richard Perle. It provided a defense of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and advocated regime change in Iran and Syria. It called for a tougher policy toward North Korea, and a tougher US stance against Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations in order to "win the war on terror".{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

He published Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again in 2008. In 2012, his book Why Romney Lost (And What The GOP Can Do About It), attributed Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 U.S. presidential election to an economic message out of touch with the concerns of middle-class Americans and to a backward-looking cultural message. Frum's first novel, Patriots, was published in April 2012.{{cite news|author=Frum, David|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/opinion/frum-excerpt-patriots/index.html|title=Why a pundit wrote a novel|date=April 30, 2012|publisher=CNN}} It is a political satire about the election and presidency of a fictional conservative American president.{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/21556199 |newspaper=The Economist |title=Hell and the high ground |date=June 2, 2012 |access-date=February 9, 2017}} In 2018, Frum published Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, about the dangers posed by the Trump presidency to American democracy.{{cite book | isbn= 978-0-06-279673-8 |publisher= HarperCollins |date= January 16, 2018 |title= Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic |author= Frum, David |url= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068859-trumpocracy}} He was interviewed for the book on the New Books Network.{{Cite web |title=Podcast {{!}} David Frum, "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American... |url=https://newbooksnetwork.com/david-frum-trumpocracy-the-corruption-of-the-american-republic-harper-2018 |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=New Books Network |language=en}} In 2020, he published a second volume about the Trump era and its consequences, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy.{{Cite web |title=Trumpocalypse |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/trumpocalypse-david-frum?variant=40079882911778 |access-date=August 25, 2024 |website=HarperCollinsPublishers}}

Frum was a commentator for American Public Media's "Marketplace" from 2007 until his final appearance on October 12, 2011.{{cite web|author=Ryssdal, Kai and David Frum|url=http://www.marketplace.org/topics/commentary/david-frum-bids-farewell-marketplace | title=David Frum bids farewell to Marketplace | date=October 12, 2011 | publisher=American Public Media | access-date=December 17, 2012 }} Frum has made numerous appearances on the weekly radio program Left, Right & Center on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, California. On the KCRW program, Frum presented the conservative viewpoint.{{cite web | url=http://www.truthdig.com/tag/david_frum/ | title=Truthdig - Tag - David Frum | publisher=Truthdig | access-date=December 17, 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101164848/http://www.truthdig.com/tag/david_frum | archive-date=January 1, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web | url=http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/lr/lr121214school_shooting_susa | title=Left, Right & Center: School Shooting; Susan Rice Withdraws and More | publisher=KCRW | access-date=December 17, 2012 | archive-date=December 19, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219024719/http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/lr/lr121214school_shooting_susa | url-status=dead }}

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Frum supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{cite news |title=10 disgraced Iraq War architects who are desperately trying to sabotage the Iran deal |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/09/01/10_disgraced_iraq_war_architects_who_are_desperately_trying_to_sabotage_obamas_iran_deal_partner/ |work=Salon |date=September 1, 2015}}{{cite news |title=16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 22, 2019}} He helped write George W. Bush's famous "Axis of Evil" speech to describe the governments of Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Frum is a supporter of Israel.{{cite news |title=David Frum's diary: When Hamas shoots at Israel, they're shooting at my kid |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/david-frums-diary-when-hamas-shoots-at-israel-theyre-shooting-at-my-kid/ |work=The Spectator |date=August 9, 2014}}{{cite news |title=Four Lessons From Israel's Clash With Tlaib and Omar |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/a-few-lessons-from-israels-spat-with-the-squad/596290/ |work=The Atlantic |date=August 16, 2019}} He opposed President Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal. In 2009, Frum described his political beliefs as follows:

I'm a conservative Republican, have been all my adult life. I volunteered for the Reagan campaign in 1980. I've attended every Republican convention since 1988. I was president of the Federalist Society chapter at my law school, worked on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and wrote speeches for President Bush—not the 'Read My Lips' Bush, the 'Axis of Evil' Bush. I served on the Giuliani campaign in 2008 and voted for John McCain in November. I supported the Iraq War and (although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect) the impeachment of Bill Clinton. I could go on, but you get the idea.{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Frum|date=March 6, 2009|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2009/03/06/why-rush-is-wrong.html|title=Why Rush is Wrong|magazine=Newsweek|publisher=IBT Media|location=New York City}}

In 2010, Frum was involved in the formation of the centrist group No Labels as a "founding leader".{{Cite news|title=No Labels group seeking nonpartisan middle ground|last=Rucker|first=Philip|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 14, 2010|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121305645.html|access-date=February 15, 2011}}

In June 2011, following the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York state, Frum's weekly column for CNN was titled "I was wrong about same-sex marriage." In it he described the evolution of his opinion from a "strong opponent" 14 years prior; while he had feared that its introduction would cause "the American family [to] become radically more unstable," he now feels that "the case against same-sex marriage has been tested against reality. The case has not passed its test."{{cite news |last1=Frum |first1=David |date=2011-06-27 |title=I was wrong about same-sex marriage |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/frum.gay.marriage/ |url-status=live |language=en |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004172501/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/frum.gay.marriage/ |archive-date=2022-10-04 |access-date=2023-03-17}} In 2013, Frum was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.{{cite web|first=John|last=Avlon |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/28/the-pro-freedom-republicans-are-coming-131-sign-gay-marriage-brief.html |title=The Pro-Freedom Republicans Are Coming: 131 Sign Gay Marriage Brief |website=The Daily Beast |date=February 28, 2013|access-date=May 4, 2016}}

In a 2013 opinion column for CNN, Frum discussed the need for a "Plan B On Guns" because of a lack of votes in Congress for gun control legislation. Frum specifically urged the commissioning of a surgeon general's report on firearms health effects on individual ownership (writing that "such a report would surely reach the conclusion that a gun in the home greatly elevates risks of suicide, lethal accident and fatal domestic violence"), and he called for Senate hearings regarding the practices of firearms manufacturers. He compared these to hearings conducted in the 1990s about tobacco companies.[http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/opinion/frum-obama-plan-b-on-guns/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 "Obama needs a 'Plan B' on guns"], CNN, February 18, 2013

In 2014, Frum accused Edward Snowden of collaboration with Vladimir Putin's television networks.{{cite web |first=David |last=Frum |title=The Lies Edward Snowden Tells |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-lies-edward-snowden-tells/360893/ |work=The Atlantic |date=April 18, 2014 |access-date=July 25, 2017 |archive-date=September 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915185248/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-lies-edward-snowden-tells/360893/ |url-status=dead }}

Frum appeared on stage with Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign CEO and White House Chief Strategist, in the November 2, 2018 edition of the Munk Debates in Toronto, ON., where they debated the future of populism in western politics.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poq5ZrAc7pk| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104133447/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poq5ZrAc7pk| archive-date=2018-11-04 | url-status=dead|title=Munk Debate: The Rise of Populism|date=November 2, 2018|publisher=Cable Public Affairs Channel|access-date=March 9, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.munkdebates.com/|title=Munk Debates - Munk Debates|website=Munkdebates.com|access-date=March 9, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/technical-error-blamed-for-wrong-results-at-controversial-toronto-munk-debate-1.4162059|title='Technical error' blamed for wrong results at controversial Toronto Munk debate|website=CTV News|date=November 3, 2018|access-date=March 9, 2019}}

In 2018, he wrote, "The advanced democracies have built the freest, most just, and best societies in human history. Those societies demand many improvements, for sure—incremental, practical reforms, with careful attention to unintended consequences. But not revolution. Not the burn-it-all-down fantasies of the new populists."{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Frum|title=David Frum: The Republican Party Needs to Embrace Liberalism|magazine=The Atlantic|publisher=Emerson Collective|location=Washington, D.C.|date=October 21, 2018}}

Frum is a proponent of immigration reform, arguing that "reducing immigration, and selecting immigrants more carefully" would lead to increased economic benefits and restore "the feeling of belonging to one united nation, responsible for the care and flourishing of all its people".{{cite magazine |last=Frum |first=David |date=April 2019 |title=If Liberals Won't Enforce Borders, Fascists Will |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/david-frum-how-much-immigration-is-too-much/583252/ |magazine=The Atlantic|location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Emerson Collective|access-date=December 22, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/david-frum-reacts-immigration-responses/585391/ |title=Faith, Reason, and Immigration |last=Frum |first=David |date=March 21, 2019|magazine=The Atlantic |publisher=Emerson Collective |location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=December 22, 2019}}

He expressed support for Israel and its right to self-defense during the Gaza war.{{cite news |title=Viewpoint David Frum: 'Hamas started the war. Let Israel finish it' |url=https://thehub.ca/2023-10-08/hamas-started-the-war-let-israel-finish-it-david-frum-on-the-surprise-hamas-attack-on-israel/ |work=The Hub Canada |date=8 October 2023}}{{cite news |title='Strange work of propaganda' at play in Mideast war, says US analyst |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/interviews/1225328/strange-work-of-propaganda-at-play-in-mideast-war-says-us-analyst/ |work=Kathimerini |date=21 November 2023}} In December 2023, Frum said that the Israeli response was "inevitable" and that Palestinian statehood was not the solution.{{cite news |title=How do Palestinians factor into Israel's vision for the Middle East? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2023/12/30/how-do-palestinians-factor-into-israels-vision-for-the-middle-east |work=Al Jazeera |date=30 December 2023}}

Frum supported John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, writing "I vote for John McCain". In an article for National Review Online that he posted days before the 2008 election, he gave ten reasons why he was going to vote for McCain instead of Barack Obama. Frum had previously been a vocal critic of Republican presidential candidate McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate on the grounds that Palin was unqualified to assume the presidency. Speaking of Palin's performance during the campaign, Frum stated, "I think she has pretty thoroughly—and probably irretrievably—proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States." Nevertheless, he ultimately stated his support for Palin, writing "But on Tuesday, I will trust that she can learn. She has governed a state—and ... it says something important that so many millions of people respond to her as somebody who incarnates their beliefs and values. At a time when the great American middle often seems to be falling further and further behind, there may be a special need for a national leader who represents and symbolizes that middle."

After the 2012 election, Frum said that Romney would have been "a really good president" but that he had allowed himself to be "twisted into pretzels" by the more extreme factions of the Republican Party who immediately abandoned him after he lost the election.{{cite news |url=https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/frum-conservatives-fleeced-and-lied-c |title=Frum: Conservatives fleeced and 'lied to by conservative entertainment complex' |last=Katchen |first=Drew |work=MSNBC |date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=February 10, 2017}}

Frum stated that he voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He is identified with the Never Trump movement, Republicans who opposed the election of Donald Trump and continued to oppose Trump during his presidency.{{Cite magazine |last=Klion |first=David |date=2020-05-29 |title=David Frum's Hold Over the Center |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/157885/david-frums-hold-center-trumpocalypse-book-review |access-date=2022-04-27 |issn=0028-6583}}{{Cite magazine |last=Hansen |first=Victor Davis |year=2020 |issue=Fall |title=Always Never Trump |url=https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/always-never-trump/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |magazine=Claremont Review of Books |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Frum |first=David |date=2021-09-13 |title=What the Never Trumpers Want Now |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/never-trumpers-democrats-now/620055/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |magazine=The Atlantic |language=en}} In October 2019, Frum called Trump "very, very guilty" of attempting to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump's political opponent Joe Biden.{{Cite web|url=https://wsau.com/blogs/tom-kings-blog/54/when-fiction-seemed-real|title = When Fiction Seemed Real}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-very-guilty-bush-w-h-staffer-goes-there-on-avalanche-of-ukraine-evidence-72281157668|title = 'Very guilty': Bush W.H. Staffer goes there on avalanche of Ukraine evidence|website = MSNBC}} During Trump's term, Frum wrote two books criticizing Trump, his policies, and his incompetence at governing. One was Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (2018),{{Cite news |last=Wooldridge |first=Adrian |date=2018-01-24 |title=A Conservative's Case Against Donald Trump |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/books/review/david-frum-trumpocracy.html |access-date=2022-04-27 |issn=0362-4331}} the other was Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy (2020). In April 2022, when the Republican Party prohibited its candidates from participating in future presidential debates, Frum attributed the decision to the "Trump Cinematic Universe", an involuted cartoon version of reality accessible to "only those conversant with the pro-Trump right's internal myths and legends".{{Cite magazine |last=Frum |first=David |date=2022-04-18 |title=The End of Presidential Debates |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/rnc-withdrawal-commission-on-presidential-debates/629580/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |magazine=The Atlantic |language=en}} In April 2024, he wrote an article published in The Atlantic entitled "Trump Deflates", where he argued: "The House vote to aid Ukraine renews hope that Ukraine can still win its war. It also showed how and why Donald Trump should lose the 2024 election."{{Cite web |last=Frum |first=David |date=2024-04-20 |title=Trump Deflates |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-republican-vote-ukraine-aid/678148/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}

In 2009, Frum denounced various anti-Obama conspiracy theories as "wild accusations and the paranoid delusions coming from the fever swamps".{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-14-na-gop-fringe14-story.html|title=Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 14, 2009|access-date=October 3, 2011|author=Wallsten, Peter}} In his blog, Frum described the Tea Party as "a movement of relatively older and relatively affluent Americans whose expectations have been disrupted by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. They are looking for an explanation of the catastrophe—and a villain to blame. They are finding it in the same place that (Michele) Bachmann and her co-religionists located it 30 years ago: a deeply hostile national government controlled by alien and suspect forces, with Barack Obama as their leader and symbol." He explained Bachmann's political views, some of which he called "paranoid": "It emerges from a religious philosophy that rejects the federal government as an alien instrument of destruction, ripping apart a Christian society. Bachmann's religiously grounded rejection of the American state finds a hearing with many more conventional conservatives radicalized by today's hard economic times."{{cite web|url=http://frumforum.com/entry/inside-bachmanns-brain|title=Inside Bachmann's Brain|work=FrumForum.com|date=August 8, 2011|access-date=2020-02-07|first=David|last=Frum}}

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On August 14, 2009, on Bill Moyers Journal, Frum challenged certain Republican political tactics in opposing health care and other Democratic initiatives as "outrageous," "dangerous," and ineffective. As Congress prepared to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010, Frum again criticized the Republican strategy of refusing to negotiate with President Obama and congressional Democrats on health care reform, saying that it had resulted in the Republicans' "most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s". Before making this statement, Frum had been associated with the American Enterprise Institute. He resigned from the AEI a few days later.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25/david-frum-aei-split-cons_n_513544.html|access-date=January 14, 2011|date=October 25, 2010|work=Huffington Post|title=David Frum, AEI SPLIT: Conservative's Position 'Terminated' By Major Think Tank}} Following the temporary withdrawal of a Republican effort to repeal the ACA in 2017, Frum wrote an article in the Atlantic in which he chastised fellow Republicans and conservatives for failing to take his advice to behave with moderation and humility.Frum, David. [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/the-republican-waterloo/520833/ "Obamacare: The Republican Waterloo"]. The Atlantic. March 24, 2017.

In a September 2011 article, Tablet Magazine wrote: "as the Tea Party has come to dominate the GOP, Frum has been transformed in a remarkably short period of time from right-wing royalty to apostate" and quoted him as saying: "There's a style and a sensibility in the Republican Party right now that I find myself removed from, [but] you can do more good for the country by working for a better Republican Party than by leaving it to the extremists. What have they done to deserve that inheritance?"{{cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/79344/off-axis/|title=Off-Axis|work=Tablet|date=September 27, 2011|access-date=October 3, 2011|first=Michelle|last=Goldberg}}

Writing for New York magazine in November 2011, Frum described his reaction to fellow Republicans, who had distanced themselves from him, saying, "Some of my Republican friends ask if I've gone crazy. I say: Look in the mirror." He described the development of an "alternative reality" within which the party, conservative think-tanks, and right wing commentators operate from a set of lies about the economy and nonexistent threats to their traditional base of supporters. He expressed concern over the inability of moderate Republicans to criticize their conservative brethren, contrasting this to the 1960s split between moderate Ripon Republicans and conservative Goldwater Republicans, when moderates such as Michigan governor George Romney were publicly critical of the conservatives.{{cite web |first=David |last=Frum |url=https://nymag.com/news/politics/conservatives-david-frum-2011-11/ |title=When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? |work=New York |publisher=New York Media|location=New York City|date=November 20, 2011 |access-date=July 25, 2017}}

Frum considers himself "a not especially observant Jew". Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln are among his favorite historical figures. Marcel Proust is his favorite novelist.

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• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy|publisher=Harper|date=May 26, 2020|isbn= 978-0062978417|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3KuDwAAQBAJ}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic|publisher=Harper|date=January 16, 2018|isbn=978-0-06-279673-8}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Why Romney Lost (And What the GOP Can Do About It)|publisher=Newsweek|date=November 8, 2012|location=New York City|page=224|asin=B00A3EOVKS}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again|publisher=Doubleday|date=December 31, 2007|location=New York City|page=[https://archive.org/details/comebackconserva00frum/page/224 224]|isbn=978-0-385-51533-7|url=https://archive.org/details/comebackconserva00frum/page/224}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|author2=Perle, Richard |author-link2=Richard Perle |title=An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror|publisher=Random House|year=2004|location=New York and Toronto|page=304|isbn=978-1-4000-6194-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush|url=https://archive.org/details/rightmaninsideac00frum_0|url-access=registration|publisher=Random House|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/rightmaninsideac00frum_0/page/320 320]|isbn=978-0-375-50903-2}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life—For Better or Worse|publisher=Basic Books|year=2000|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/448 448]|isbn=978-0-465-04195-4|url=https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/448}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America|publisher=Basic Books|year=1997|page=224|isbn=978-0-465-04198-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=What's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada|publisher=Random House of Canada|year=1996|location=Mississauga, Ontario|page=[https://archive.org/details/whatsrightnewcon00frum_0/page/308 308]|isbn=978-0-679-30783-9|url=https://archive.org/details/whatsrightnewcon00frum_0/page/308}}
• {{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Dead Right|publisher=Basic Books|year=1995|page=[https://archive.org/details/deadright00frum_1/page/256 256]|isbn=978-0-465-09825-5|url=https://archive.org/details/deadright00frum_1/page/256}}
• {{cite book|last=de Soto|first=Hernando|author-link=Hernando de Soto (economist)|author2=Frum, David|title=The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else|url=https://archive.org/details/mysteryofcapital00soto/page/288|url-access=registration|publisher=Basic Books|date=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/mysteryofcapital00soto/page/288 288]|isbn=978-0-465-01615-0|quote="I ghostwrote it, but the research & concepts are all his."}}

• {{cite journal |author=Tomasky, Michael |author-link=Michael Tomasky |date=February 22, 2018 |title=The worst of the worst |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=4, 6, 8 |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/02/22/trump-wolff-worst-of-the-worst/ }} Review of Trumpocracy.

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{{cite web|first=Harry|last=Kreisler|url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Frum/frum-con1.html|title=Conversation with David Frum|work=Conversations with History|publisher=Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-date=August 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827173109/http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Frum/frum-con1.html|url-status=dead}}

{{cite web|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmU1NGZkMWJkNjM1N2NjZDZmNzdiZDc1MWQwNmE2OGY=|last=Frum|first=David|title=Campaigns Past|work=National Review|date=October 30, 2007|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105175702/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmU1NGZkMWJkNjM1N2NjZDZmNzdiZDc1MWQwNmE2OGY%3D|archive-date=November 5, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

{{cite news|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzFlNTJkMmI3ZWRjZWU1MjI3NzM5MzgwYjZjODNhNmE=|last=Frum|first=David|title=David's Bookshelf Year End|work=National Review|date=January 1, 2008|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311064101/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzFlNTJkMmI3ZWRjZWU1MjI3NzM5MzgwYjZjODNhNmE%3D|archive-date=March 11, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06wwln-Q4-t.html|title=Questions for David Frum, Right Hand Man|first=Deborah|last=Solomon|date=January 6, 2008|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=April 3, 2010}}

{{cite news |url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTFmMjM1YTg1YTI4ODNmNjcwMDNiYjE3MmM2N2EwZWM= |title=Rudy & Me |work=National Review |last=Frum |first=David |date=October 11, 2007 |access-date=April 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013024333/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTFmMjM1YTg1YTI4ODNmNjcwMDNiYjE3MmM2N2EwZWM%3D |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=b74ccd42-1349-4fac-90ea-ae3601fab53b&k=87212&p=2|title=Make speech free, and all else follows|work=National Post|date=October 20, 2007|access-date=April 3, 2010 |last=Frum |first=David |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107062237/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=b74ccd42-1349-4fac-90ea-ae3601fab53b&k=87212&p=2 |archive-date=November 7, 2012}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.rjchq.org/About/biodetail.aspx?id=97370360-df02-48e2-8a0b-205f71b267e3 |title=Biographies: David Frum, Board of Directors |publisher=Republican Jewish Coalition |access-date=April 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127111435/https://www.rjchq.org/About/biodetail.aspx?id=97370360-df02-48e2-8a0b-205f71b267e3 |archive-date=November 27, 2008 }}

{{cite news|first=Adam|last=Nagourney |author-link=Adam Nagourney |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/frum-forced-out-at-conservative-institute|title=Frum Forced Out at Conservative Institute|publisher=The New York Times The Caucus blog|date=March 25, 2010|access-date=April 3, 2010}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.frumforum.com/aei-says-goodbye|title=AEI Says Goodbye|first=David|last=Frum|publisher=Frum Forum|date=March 25, 2010|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162426/http://www.frumforum.com/aei-says-goodbye/|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=dead}}

{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/media/17review.html|last=Arango|first=Tim|title=At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 16, 2008|access-date=April 3, 2010}}

{{cite web|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGQ5YjVlYmFhZTFiZTU2YjExYmJlZDA1NGI0ZWRjZGY=|last=Frum|first=David|title=A Note to Readers|work=National Review|date=November 18, 2008|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104115303/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGQ5YjVlYmFhZTFiZTU2YjExYmJlZDA1NGI0ZWRjZGY%3D|archive-date=January 4, 2009|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

{{cite web|url=http://newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=cd6c8e84-88b7-4635-ac41-102f78b252cf|title=Welcome to NewMajority.com|access-date=February 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212074603/http://newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=cd6c8e84-88b7-4635-ac41-102f78b252cf |archive-date=February 12, 2009}}

{{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=Dead Right|location=New York|publisher=Basic Books|year=1995|isbn=978-0-465-09825-5|url=https://archive.org/details/deadright00frum_1}}

{{cite book|last=Frum|first=David|title=How We Got Here: The 70's, The Decade That Brought You Modern Life - For Better or Worse|url=https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum|url-access=registration|publisher=Basic Books |location=New York |year=2000|isbn=978-0-465-04196-1}}

{{cite web|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjE5NDk2NzQ5YzRlNGM4ODA0OWUwNjE0ZTk1MjU3YmM=|title=For John McCain|date=November 1, 2008|work=National Review|last=Frum|first=David|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106102132/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjE5NDk2NzQ5YzRlNGM4ODA0OWUwNjE0ZTk1MjU3YmM%3D|archive-date=November 6, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/politics/30palin.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1222801600-LA8vI8IZ8DfY4CpTANbFAw| title=Concerns About Palin's Readiness as Big Test Nears|date=September 30, 2008| newspaper=The New York Times|first=Adam|last=Nagourney |author-link=Adam Nagourney |access-date=April 3, 2010}}

{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08142009/transcript2.html|title=Bill Moyers Journal|work=Transcript|date=August 14, 2009|access-date=April 3, 2010}}

{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/waterloo |title=Waterloo |last=Frum |first=David |date=2012-06-28 |website=thedailybeast.com |access-date=2019-12-22 }}

{{cite web|url=http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg1YWFiZmU2NWRkMDM1OTljMDMyMTZjNTBiMTQxYjU=|last=Frum|first=David|title=David's Bookshelf 50|work=National Review|date=October 27, 2007|access-date=April 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031011733/http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg1YWFiZmU2NWRkMDM1OTljMDMyMTZjNTBiMTQxYjU%3D|archive-date=October 31, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

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• {{cite news|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/the_limits_to_my_selfimportanc_1/|title=The Limits to My Self-Importance|first=Joel|last=Whitney|work=Guernica Magazine|date=January 10, 2009 |access-date=February 10, 2017}}
• {{cite interview |interviewer=Kai Ryssdal |title=David Frum bids farewell to Marketplace |url=http://www.marketplace.org/topics/commentary/david-frum-bids-farewell-marketplace |date=October 12, 2011 |work=Marketplace}}

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