Close, but not quite. Let me first congratulate NR for finding 22 conservative (notice that isn't capitalized) writers who, having searched among themselves, finally found a pair of balls. Therein is a feat unparalleled by the writing they produced. Too little, and much too late. Had NR continued in all these years (one might truly argue decades) to be a font and light for true Conservatism, your opining might in fact hold great weight. As it is, at this late hour, waking from your literary (read drunken) stupor, asserting yourselves with the loud rigor of one caught sleeping will not be effective.
You will receive nothing more than *rolls eyes*... And rightly so.
The problem is this:
Liberalism has almost destroyed us - Not because it is winning on merit, but rather because it receives no opposition. That is your fault, directly.
Now, even here, many people don't even understand what Conservatism IS. Few here can recite it's principles. Few see it as a single coherent thing. That is your fault, directly.
Because you didn't stand in the breach, because the educators do not stand in the breach, and because politicians do not stand in the breach, to stand and FIGHT, we are left with the very reasonable conclusion that you approve, or even collude with those forcing liberalism, globalism and multiculturalism down our throats. You dirty, no-account sonsabitches.
So go back to your hallowed halls and contemplate. Blow smoke rings with your fine cigars, and fart in your fine leather chairs. And know that you have failed us all.
The NR is of course not perfect and the Bucley days (the real one) are long gone but there are still some good writers in it, like most things the wheat and the chaff need separated