The 4th anniversary of National Review's suicide

Don Surber Blog ^ | 01/25/2020 | Din Surber

[qwertyz]

I mean ... Victor Davis Hanson was pro-Trumpish.

[Stepan12]

That was an over reaction if ever there was one. And was Derbyshire correct?

[Stepan12]

I wasn't for Pres. Trump in the primaries. A chance reading of aRoger Stone book about Hillary's war on women drew me into Trump's orbit after his nomination.

Conservative turncoat, Michael Fumento, voted for Hillary. And his constant attacks on Pres. Trump made for bad blood between us and he blocked me on Facebook.

[nwrep]

Dana Loesch

[Kozak]

I started my subscription to NR in Nov of 80 right after Reagan’s election.
I cancelled it 2 years ago.

[DrPretorius]

Mark Levin and Rush endorsed Cruz and tried to get Hillary elected when Cruz lost the nomination to Trump.

Yes, indeed, and it's good to remind people of these facts at every opportunity. I was an unabashed Trumper from the day he came down the escalator. But during the runup to the election you couldn't find any Trump supporters in most conservative circles except the unwashed masses, the "deplorables." I even stopped reading FR because of the incessant caterwauling against Trump right here posted every day. Virtualy the only blogger that was reliably pro-Trump was Conservative Treehouse. It seemed like the whole damn world was against Trump. Even after the election, which was a modern day miracle, the GOPe and their conservative pecksniffs did everything they could to destroy the man, and all of us with him. I can't forget what so many blithering idiot conservatives like Levin, Limbaugh, and, yes, Sowell, did then. I find it hard to see them as thought leaders anymore. They're just hypocritical schmucks.

[logician2u]

NR lost me for the last time when they slimed Pat Buchanan back in ‘92. All but branded him a neo-Nazi.

Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckley’s terrible PC sword.

. . . and I have often wondered what happened to that Professor Greenlee who wrote great articles about the westward expansion. Did the AIM folks take aim at him, or did WFB and Bill Rusher?

[poconopundit]

Did they formally apologize? Did they say they made a mistake?

[Chickensoup]

VDH changed his mind but he did not feature in that issue.

[Chickensoup]

I know. It is funny, I never thought they were even a little bit correct about Trump.

ever.

there was no real logic to their arguments.

[xp38]

Given the betrayal that our side had experienced with W and others I was at that time wary of any pols. I was during the primaries neutral and favoured no one. Trump had somewhat of a history with the dims so again I was wary but was willing to support anyone capable of regaining the WH from the dims. As the primaries unfolded I got on board well before the convention. My deadline for any conservative to support Trump was the convention. After that if you were against him you were essentially supporting another Clinton presidency which to me are grounds for excommunication. If any of the repenters repented after say he took office they are less than useless. They may be useful in this reelection campaign but way too late by my reckoning.

[Jane Austen]

That surprised me.

[catnipman]

“philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”

so? anyone really see anything wrong with that?

[BTerclinger]

"My reaction to Against Trump was, "National Review Hoists White Flag, Defiantly Rows To Outcast Island." Ahoy! Drops Trou, Bends Over & Shouts to Anderson Cooper, "BRING IT, we're woke. now!"

[nutmeg]

Katie Pavlich and Andy McCarthy seem to be with Team Trump now. Not sure about the others. Haven't heard a peep from Cal Thomas nor L. Brent Bozelll III in years.

Glenn Beck is still alive?

[catnipman]

“I have heard rumors that NRO is one RINO mega-donor away from extinction.”

that’s a piece of excellent news if true!

[catnipman]

“And plenty of the never Trumpers are still prepared to say, “Yeah, but his tweets! Those are ... they’re ... well, they’re sort of ... rude. Ya know?””

THEY’RE NOT “PRESIDENTIAL”!

[catnipman]

interesting that Conrad Black and Victor Davis Hanson were never on the list to start with ...

[catnipman]

“We had no general who could control the battlespace practically forever. Even Reagan couldnt do what Trump is doing. Trump is a phenomenon who is like George Washington or even Julius Ceasar. We will never see his like for a hundred years.”

absolute words of truth ...

[DrPretorius]

Joe Sobran was another casualty of Buckley's terrible sword.

I never was a Buckley fan although I did enjoy his Firing Line program. I couldn't take him seriously after he dismissed Ayn Rand, who was a more profound thinker than Buckley was and a true advocate for liberty. And when he ostracized Joe Sobran, who was arguably the greatest American Catholic intellectual of that era, I knew Buckley was really just a pretender. His hamhanded castoff of his magazine to the likes of Lowry and Goldberg was par for the course with him by then.