Posted on 12/16/2018 2:12:57 PM PST by Widget Jr
When it was announced on Friday that The Weekly Standard would print its last issue after nearly a quarter of a century, I was astonished. Who would ever have guessed that The American Conservative, the upstart anti-war magazine founded by Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell in 2002, would outlast Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes' neoconservative colossus? If you had asked me five years ago, I would have said it was about as likely as the star of Celebrity Apprentice winning the White House on a reactionary populist platform.
It's worth saying at the outset that I and millions of other Americans of all political tendencies disagreed with the editors of The Weekly Standard about the Iraq war. We were right and they were wrong. I will return later to this issue, which is more complicated than some critics of intervention have ever made it sound. But there are other points worth making first.
The most obvious one is that the Standard was, for more than two decades, the best right-of-center periodical published in the United States. This was true for the very simple reason that it hired the best writers and let them write about the topics that interested them...
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I remember the Weekly Standard.
No F**ks Given
Another Never-Trumper?
“What Made The Weekly Standard Great”
Nothing.
Nothing.
Its demise.
Bill Kristol lost his mouthpiece.
The WS represented a fringe movement. It wasn’t even making money and its content sucked.
Great, indeed.
The Week is a leftist publication, so of course they love globalist rino garbage like the weekly standard.
I actually paid attention to what Kristol had to say.
Because whatever he said was always wrong and it made me chuckle.
And their sucky magazine failed because nobody buys magazines anymore. You can find anything you want for free right here on the internets.
LOL. It is a very merry Christmas knowing that those money sucking RINO’s. Are unemployed.
The best part of the Weakly Standards was watching the Neocon NeverTrumper flail and fail, only to end up kicking Head Dumbshit Bill Kristol to the curb, and then doubling-down on stupid by putting Deputy Dumbshit Stephen Hayes the job of running it completely into the ground. Incredibly stupid people making incredibly stupid decisions, over and over, learning nothing in the process.
If they only had the hubris and common sense to set aside their personal “feelings” and vanity and simply wrote about what President Trump was accomplishing by applying conservative principles they would be thriving today.
The Bitter Clingers have one less rag to read. I pray the NRO is next.
Didn’t that turn into some anti-Trump mouthpiece? They kind of got out in the weeds and never found their way back.
National Review is not all that much better, but maybe they finally recognize that Donald Trump was actually elected to the Presidency. The Weekly Standard never made that intellectual leap.
Okay I’ll bite: What made The Weakly Stranded great? I give up, tell me.
See posts #5 and #6.
Nothing. They sucked their entire time.
The Weak-Kneed Scoundrels.
Being a mouth piece for the Establishment will never make you great, ever.
When the word “neocon” was all the rage, it referred to people like Kristol and the bow-tie at the now largely defunct and disgraced neocon rag.
There’s no future for Never Trumperism. 45 House Never Trumpers quit, handing the House over to the Democrats and Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and John McCain are gone.
All in all, its a good end to the year. Trump sent them into the wilderness. The upside is he has a stronger Republican Party to work with for the next two years.
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