[Wallace T.]

Buckley style conservatism is struggling to hold onto the hearts and minds of the conservative public. There is no one as eloquent as William Buckley or as entertaining as Rush Limbaugh to sway the right side of the political spectrum. The attack on Tucker Carlson comes from the magazine Buckley founded. Carlson and similar podcasters and bloggers get more views than National Review and the older talk radio era people.

A combination of leftist overreach in trying to suppress conservative and alt-right speech through Big Tech censorship, the pushback against the Federal and state overreaction to COVID, and the whole cultural revolution has led to mass alienation among men, particularly young white men. What had been fringe talk about secret machinations of the elite has become more widely accepted.

[ansel12]

National Review changed and went to the dogs after WFB died.