Dear National Review:
FU
Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Bonemaker
Some of the NT crowd appears to believe that participating in a circular firing squad, thereby signalling their anti-Trump virtue to "moderates", will help conservatism in the long run.
It won't. All they'll succeed in doing is alienating the great mass of working/middle class Republicans who celebrate having someone, however flawed, who punches back.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/02/15/conservatives-against-trump/
Screw NR.
He has nearly accomplished that first Great Task of Conservatism.
The second Great Task of Conservatism, packing the courts with judges who are NOT Lefty Democrat ideologues, is proceeding apace.
This is a YUGE bonus brought to us by the President.
After these tasks are accomplished, we can get back to "Muh Principles", for the playing field will be somewhat leveled.
I've maintained for years that wringing our hands about abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration and the like is pointless without addressing the two Great Tasks.
From the on-going hysterical squealing on the Left, we can see this was correct.
I miss VDH, but he was about the only rational one left.
Good-bye NR - we hardly knew ya'
If DJT doesn’t accomplish another thing, his destruction of corporate conservatism has been worth the price of admission for me..
I got my first copy of NR the week after Reagan won in 1980. I had to go to the ONLY news stand in the Chicago area ( in Evanston) to find it. I had a subscription since then until last year. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
National Review once was a great magazine. I subscribed from 1976 to about 1992. Often read it cover to cover.
But after Reagan left office it became a GOP establishment rag pushing amnesty and open borders. A lot of good writers and editors either left on their own or got pushed out.
And that was long before Jonah Goldberg’s mommy inexplicably got him installed there so that he could run it into an iceberg.
I dropped them 30 years ago when they decided to have a cover story that would be a “civil discourse” on abortion with baby-killers getting equal time.
When you got the Free Republic who the heck needs the National Review? I wouldn’t subscribe even if I couldn’t have the Free Republic.
National Review needs to move their offices to Tulsa Oklahoma. Maybe they could get in touch with the America they’ve forgotten if they lived in it!
Consider: “Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness” - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/franklin-graham-and-the-high-cost-of-the-lost-evangelical-witness/
French’s article could be cut to 2 words: Trump Satan!
When I finally decided I was a republican/conservative circa 1993, one of the first things I did was start a subscription to NR. Seemed the next logical step in my conversion. Not any longer. I have not looked at an issue for years. As far as I am concerned, NR is a tool of the left. The left gets to point at NR articles as examples of how “even conservatives hate Trump”. ESAD, NR.
A few years back NR posted an idiotic editorial condemning the budget that Ryan and McConnell passed, without naming them. However they managed to work in the name of presidential candidate Trump as a cause for the final budget.
I noted in the comment section that while they could only find one name to mention, a name who had nothing to do with the budget, they failed to name the perpetraitors (spelled this way on purpose) of said budget. They corrected the editorial.
It was one of my proudest days.
Whatever could have justified taking so long?
I haven’t subscribed to NR for a decade and a half
There really can be only one reason these never Trumpers are out there. They never were, or are conservatives. They were, and are playing a game. Milking the crowd, and enriching themselves.
I personally wish Trump would have his Twitter taken away. Someone could filter his comments, things like that. Even though it does have entertainment value.
But honestly, what isn’t to like that he has done or pushed for? The economy is better. Stocks are better. Employment is better. Trade is becoming more fair. He’s trying to secure the border. Veteran care is improving. WHAT!? is bad about these things, you stupid RINO’s and other turds?
What took so long?
I quit subscribing to NR about halfway through Obama’s first campaign for president, when he was featured on just about every NR cover. What were they thinking?