Posted on 01/22/2016 5:36:53 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
National Review was created by the great William F. Buckley, Jr., the brilliant pioneer of the modern conservative movement. Throughout the current presidential campaign season, NR has been a consistent critic of Donald Trump, whose conservatism it views with, to say the least, skepticism. And so it was entirely consistent for NR to publish "Against Trump," a special edition appearing today that assembles essays by an array of leading conservatives, including our own L. Brent Bozell.
That said, "Against Trump" came in for a barrage of criticism on today's Morning Joe. John Heilemann called it an "in-kind contribution" to Trump, by depicting him in precisely the way he prefers: as pitted against the Establishment. And Nicolle Wallace said it was a "stupid move and a stupid piece" that risks splitting the conservative media from the conservative base.
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“a few coquettish bats of the eyelashes”
This was my fave....
I can understand the sentiment but IMO Huey P didn’t force anything on FDR. If anything Huey was the mold for the Movie about politicians (O Brother, Where art thou?”)
This man (FDR) was a silver spoon elitist that worked tirelessly to hide his infirmity from the American people and interject his personal guilt and failings on this country. We are fortunate that our industriousness and resolve during WWII out performed him.
IMO, FDR’s impact will be everlasting in the form of Social Security and I don’t think it will ever be erased.
National Review is an establishment rag. Of course they don’t want Trump.
Rush Limbaugh has always repeated many things from this man, I wonder what he is going to do now, condemn what these people are doing or support it...
He's in a rock and a hard place right now...it will be interesting....
This conservative Pecksniffian League will now have much time to do their favorite thing - talk amongst themselves - as no one else will be listening to them henceforth.
Desperate-ado!
I disagree...NRO has no influence, the anger on Main Street is far greater than establishment politicians could ever conceive.
They are right. Trump is moral relativist. He only says he is a conservative to get votes. He is situation ally conservative and pretending, albeit poorly to be a Christian. The wife shaking fraud is a big phony.
I think it’s shameful that they do this to someone in their own party. Whether you support Trump or not.
Trump and his digital brownshirts will try to engineer a virtual “Night of the Long Knives” to take out any true conservative who stands against them.
So when did we ever agree that Morning Joe as well as MSNBC have any credibility? That idiot Wallace helped destroy Palin and that Heiny character is a life long member of the democratic cheer leading squad.
This is a true sign that the fight is over. You've lost.
Your post is filled with truth, and it find it sadly sobering. What are these dolts thinking?? What can they possibly gain from sinking our country, because this over the top hate train, is going to hurt them deeply.
Poll FReep: If the election were held today, who would be your first choice for President of the United States?
National Review was created by the great William F. Buckley, Jr.
...By the early 1950s Burnham's departure from liberalism had become irreparable. He did not rule out the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, he warned of a "fifth column" of Soviet infiltrators operating in the West, he dismissed pieties involving the ballot box, equality, education, and free speech, and his attitude toward Joseph McCarthy was much too ambivalent for the bourgeois liberals within his social circle. So he left.
For these reasons Christopher Hitchens would later name Burnham "the real intellectual founder of the neoconservative movement and the original proselytizer, in America, of the theory of 'totalitarianism.'" Burnham, Hitchens observed, "was the first important Marxist to defect all the way over to the right." He wasn't an outcast. He was a pioneer.
The defection was finalized when Burnham agreed to join William F. Buckley Jr. in the creation of National Review in 1955. A quarter century later, Buckley would say of Burnham, "Beyond any question, he has been the dominant intellectual influence in the development of this journal."
At NR, Burnham was the first person to speak at editorial meetings. He wrote a regular column on foreign affairs, penned numerous unsigned editorials and items for "The Week," edited the biweekly National Review Bulletin newsletter, and was understood to be in charge of the magazine whenever Buckley was traveling, which was often.
He also wrote numerous letters and memos on internal strategy and management. As Buckley put it, "he devoted, over a period of 23 years, more time and thought to more problems, major and minor, than would seem possible for an editor resident in Kent, Connecticut, who came to New York only two days a week."
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