Bill Buckley must be spinning in his grave.
I’ll never read the National Review again.
I agree with regard to NR. But Buckley was not a Trump fan. He had disdain for Trump. Here is what he wrote:
Look for the narcissist. The most obvious target in todays lineup is, of course, Donald Trump. When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America. But whatever the depths of self-enchantment, the demagogue has to say something. So what does Trump say? That he is a successful businessman and that that is what America needs in the Oval Office. There is some plausibility in this, though not much. The greatest deeds of American Presidents midwifing the new republic; freeing the slaves; harnessing the energies and vision needed to win the Cold War had little to do with a bottom line.LinkSo what else can Trump offer us? Well to begin with, a self-financed campaign. Does it follow that all who finance their own campaigns are narcissists? At this writing Steve Forbes has spent $63 million in pursuit of the Republican nomination. Forbes is an evangelist, not an exhibitionist. In his long and sober private career, Steve Forbes never bought a casino, and if he had done so, he would not have called it Forbess Funhouse. His motivations are discernibly selfless. . . .
Yeah- it’s a shame but the NR has become a bad joke.