Posted on 07/21/2016 3:11:40 PM PDT by oblomov
Same here. Is the American Spectator (TAS) any good now?
NR jumped the shark long before John Derbyshire. Sad.
“[The Never Trumpers] use the cheap labor and let the cost of the unemployed and underemployed fall on taxpayers and the social problems fall on their neighbors. They don’t want to admit that this vested interest is why they oppose Trump, so they come up with some specious reason.”
+1
Exactly.
Wasn’t for Trump but, he is the knight we are going to follow into war.
Just read his acceptance speech.
Just WoW!
I think its all of the above, but yeah, screw ‘em.
Dogs barking at the back of the caravan.
Some people cannot accept the idea that it is now or never to prevent North America and Europe from descending into a dystopian cesspool.
CUCKS
GONNA
CUCK
It’s simple.
Trump has taken away the power of the media merely by going around them; it drives them nuts.
Everything he says about them is true: they’re biased, they’re lazy, they’re cowards, they all vote liberal and they are, when you get down to it, the enemies of the middle class.
A pundit used to be able to demand that a candidate submit to an interview if they had any hope of being elected, Trump thumbed his nose at them, and instantly made them irrelevant.
If he’s done nothing else, he’s exposed them for the frauds that they are.
I have to say, I’m skeptical of him at best (I’m not a Cruzer or a NeverTrumper, I’m just not convinced this is going to work out), but since the only alternative is Satan’s mother, I’ll roll with it.
I was a devout reader of TAS at one point (late 80s-early 90s). Each issue was an intellectual feast,. It kept a midwestern, outside-the-beltway flair that was compellingly distinct from NR.
It lost its edge in the late 90s-early 00s. Tyrrell lost control of the magazine due to financial problems, and its future was in doubt for a few years.
But Tyrrell regained control several years back.
I’ve gotten interested in the magazine again.
Jeffrey Lord, a longtime writer for the magazine, has been a big Trump supporter on the CNN panel.
It also appears that RET and F.H. Buckley have been advising Trump:
http://spectator.org/inadvertent-conservatives-for-hillary-a-cleveland-update/
Good on them. I’ll probably subscribe again. F.H. Buckley’s recent book, The Way Back, is a fine book, and is essentially the blueprint that Trump has been outlining in his speeches (especially last night):
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Back-Restoring-Promise-America/dp/1594038570
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