The 4th anniversary of National Review's suicide

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

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The magazine came out before the first primary was even held. Trump has turned out very well, but that wasn’t at all clear at the beginning of 2016. People were rightly scared about electing somebody who had never held public office before.

[catnipman]

“People were rightly scared about electing somebody who had never held public office before.”

not me ... someone who had never held elected office was EXACTLY what we needed!

[Deplorable American1776]

William F. Buckley would be sad to see his magazine... He wrote the 11th Commandment...

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Haven’t heard a peep from Cal Thomas nor L. Brent Bozelll III in years.

Their articles are published weekly by Townhall.com

[Zhang Fei]

[I think of the authors on that cover, the following are now NOT #NeverTrumpers and have realized their mistakes:

Andrew McCarthy
Cal Thomas
Glenn Beck
Katie Pavlich
L. Brent Bozell III]

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They thought Trump was a liberal to the left of Hillary. As it turns out, Trump is liberal on some things, but broadly right-wing, and far more conservative than Hillary. What stinks is the National Review people who have seen fit to virtue-signal over the relative specks in Trump’s deviation from conservative orthodoxy, in view of the Democratic inquisition/Deep State coup attempt. I don’t agree with Trump on everything, but I’m not going to ding him when he’s under siege. The National Review’s autism on this subject is mind-boggling.

[SunkenCiv]

• Laura Ingraham: National Review's Unwise Trump Excommunication [2016]
• New Media Landscape Makes National Review's Pursuit to Take Out Trump Pointless as It is Pouty [2016]
• National Review just handed Donald Trump the Election [2016]
• National Review: Publisher 'Broken Hearted' Over Subscription Cancellations [2016]
• National Review Squanders Its Legacy; Disdains Founder Bill Buckley's Advice [2016]
• Mark Levin's fiancee's son works for Ted Cruz. [2016]
• Let Us Not Be Consumed By the Mob (Author decries voter revolt against GOP-E) [2016]
• Trump's 2015 Conservative Critics Were Obama's 2009 Fan Boys... [2015]
• Against Trump

[SunkenCiv]

National Review cavalcade of RINOsity:

• National Review compares Barron and Eric Trump to Uday and Qusay [2016]
• No, Conservatism Should Not Embrace Populism [2016]
• Steve Bannon Is Not a Nazi -- But Let's Be Honest about What He Represents (NR RINO Alert) [2016]
• Election Unworthy of America (Nat Review soiling panties alert) [2016]
• Andy McCarthy on Rush's show still can't give credit to Trump [2016]
• David French Blames Donald Trump for Intimidation, Provides No Evidence to Back That Up [2016]
• #NeverTrump Officially Becomes a Bad Joke [2016]
• I'm not the right person to challenge Trump and Hillary... (David French) [2016]
• Reince Priebus: "People Involved" With Bill Kristol's Independent "Never Trump" Candidate(Shortened) [2016]
• Bill Kristol's Candidate: It's 'Important to Say' White Working Class Communities 'Deserve to Die' [2016]
• David French signals the death of the 'Never Trump' movement. Sad! [2016]
• Never-Trumper Bill Kristol Is Eyeing This Conservative Lawyer For a Third-Party Run [2016]
• About this idea that Trump would 'destroy the conservative movement' [2016]
• WOW! Paid Hillary Protester Met with National Review Editor to Plot How to Take Down Trump [2016]
• White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal [2016]
• Andrew Sullivan: Trump a 'Reality TV A-hole,' 'Dangerous Neofascist' [2016]
• Trump Would Press the Agenda That Drove His Voters from the GOP (Barf Alert) [2016]
• National Review Editor BLAMES TRUMP SUPPORTERS for BLOODY MOB VIOLENCE at California GOP Rallies! [2016]
• Jonah Goldberg: No, I Will Never 'Come Around' to Supporting Trump [2016]
• A Presidential-Election Runoff Would Be Legal for States to Adopt [2016]
• UNREAL. Megyn Kelly Blames TRUMP CAMPAIGN for Michelle Fields Filing Hoax Assault Charges! [2016]
• Cruz Is a Safer General-Election Bet than Trump [2016]
• AWFUL! 16 Cruz-Supporting Female Reporters Sought to Destroy Trump Campaign Manager=> APOLOGIZE NOW [2016]
• Charlie LeDuff Video Highlights the GOP Disconnect via Vichy Republicanism at National Review... [2016]
• What Personality Research Reveals about Trump Supporters (Can you say the word 'aggressive'?) [2016]
• Reminder: Most Republicans Have Voted against Trump [2016]
• Dangerous Donald Trump [2016]
• NR's Jihad Against Trump -- and America [2016]
• Conservative Review column advocates "blacklist" to destroy those who support Trump (Vanity) [2016]
• BUSTED: Erick Erickson's Website Caught Taking Paul Singer Money To Bash Trump [2016]
• Kevin D. Williamson and National Review Are Elitist Scum [2016]
• Trump Will Drop Out By Mid-October And Endorse Hillary Clinton (PSA against glue-sniffing) [2016]
• What John Adams Knew -- Donald Trump: the populist demogogue John Adams anticipated [2016]
• The GOP Should Steal the Nomination from Trump [2016]
• National Review Doubles Down: 'Important to Say' White Working Class Communities 'Deserve to Die' [2016]
• Divisive Rhetoric? Trump Didn't Start This Fire (this from National Review? WTH!) [2016]
• Those white, working class, Trump supporting communities "deserve to die" [2016]
• National Review Writer: Working-Class Communities 'Deserve To Die' [2016]
• Trump to American Workers: Drop Dead [2016]
• Why I Changed My Mind and Joined the #NeverTrump Movement [2016]
• National Review: Jeff Sessions Is a 'Prostitute' for Endorsing Donald Trump [2016]
• The Albatross of Having Endorsed Trump [2016]
• National Review: Trump Worse Than Hillary [2016]
• Jonah Goldberg: Donald Trump, Christian Martyr [2016]
• The Trump University Scam [2016]
• After Months of Constant Attacks on GOP Front-Runner Trump - Conservatives Lose Faith in FOX News [2016]
• RedState's Leon Wolf : My Endorsement for President (Marco Rubio) [2016]
• It's Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project [2016]
• Against Trump Fatalism [2016]
• Erickson: I'm never voting for Trump [2016]
• If He Wins, Do We Stand With Trump? [2016]
• Glenn Beck Responds to South Carolina Primary Results: 'Join Me' in a 'Fast for Ted Cruz' [2016]
• Redstate's Leon Wolf: "No CNN, Trump is not on the Path to the Nomination" [2016]
• What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party (Compares to Wallace) [2016]
• New York Daily News Slams 'Anti-Christ' Donald Trump In Fiery Front Page Image [2016]
• Literal Holy Crap: Glenn Beck Says Scalia's Death Part of God's Plan to Elect Ted Cruz [2016]
• Glenn Beck: I Would Feel Unsafe Alone With "Psychopath"Trump Presidency Would "Lead To Civil War" [2016]
• Oh Dear -- Mark Levin Accuses The Conservative Tree House of Antisemitism... [2016]
• Beating Trump in Debate (NRO Delusional with Rage) [2016]
• 'Really Honorable': Glenn Beck Shares Theory on Why Jeb Bush Is Still Running [2016]
• A Bad Night for Conservatives in New Hampshire [2016]
• Donald Trump's New Hampshire Win Means These Media Members Are Winners & Losers [2016]

[SunkenCiv]

Kevin Williamson / related:

• Old school politicians could cause Democrats to lose the 2020 election [2019]
• Just Stop Spending: Hey Congress, Stop spending money you don't have, dummy. [2019]
• National Review compares Barron and Eric Trump to Uday and Qusay [2016]
• The Economic Stupidity of the Carrier Bailout [2016]
• NR's Jihad Against Trump -- and America [2016]
• Kevin D. Williamson and National Review Are Elitist Scum [2016]
• What John Adams Knew -- Donald Trump: the populist demogogue John Adams anticipated [2016]
• Trump, Lies, and Bankruptcy [2016]
• How to Fix Illegal Immigration in Five Steps without Building a Wall [2016]
• Trump's Terrific People [2016]
• African American Conservatives interviews Michelle Malkin and Kevin Williamson of National Review [2016]
• What Trump Doesn't Understand -- It's a Lot -- about Our Trade Deficit with China [2016]
• President Trump (or Cruz) Will Have a Pen and a Phone, Too [reap the windbag-or a Texas tornado] [2015]
• Can moderators be fair having called Trump a 'witless ape'? (National Review Hates Trump [2015]
• Can moderators be fair having called Trump a 'witless ape'? [2015]
• The Public Sector: Standing in Our Way until We Pay Up; Just a supplementary welfare state. [2015]
• We're Not That Far from a Balanced Budget [2015]
• The Conservative Anti-Trump Club [2015]

  Bret Stephens, George Will, Glenn Beck, Michael Gerson, Charles C.W. Cooke, Karl Rove, Jonah Goldberg, John Podhoretz, Kevin D. Williamson, Mona Charen, Noah Rothman, Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, John Fund, et al.

• Paris Hilton Could Out-Trump Trump in 2016 [2015]
• Donald Trump And The American Id [2015]
• Williamson Aims At Trump's 'WHINOS'-and Misses The Mark [2015]
• The Art of the Con, by Donald Trump [2015]
• Witless Ape Rides Escalator [Trump] [2015]
• The Curious case of Kevin Williamson vs Rush Limbaugh [2014]
• National Review Writer: Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Hanged [2014]
• Whose Side are you On? If you don't care whether Republicans win, care that Democrats lose. [2014]
• For The New Emperors [2014]
• Evict the Rich, White Liberals [2013]
• The Plantation Theory: Time to retire a dumb Cornel West idea and the rhetoric that goes with it. [2013]
• Frank Rich Is Wrong about Civil Rights [2013]
• Yes, Chicks Dig Jerks [2012]
• Kevin Williamson of National Review: Why This Could Be the End of Cain [2011]
• National Review Online Contributors Sell Out Conservative Movement on VAT Tax (Ellis vs Williamson) [2010]
• Remembering The Difficult Relationship Between William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Sobran. [2010]
• Joe Sobran, R.I.P. [Joseph Sobran, 1946 - 2010] [2010]
• Dr. David Allen Whilte Embracing Joe Sobran's Alleged Antisemitism? [2010]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I heard that. I kept seeing all these stories on FR freaking out that Trump donated to this or that Democrap politician. I tried to explain to people that when you’re doing business on the level that Trump was, you donate to BOTH candidates. Then no matter who wins, you can tell them when you meet them, “Hey, I donated to your campaign, congrats!” Like it or not, that’s business. Even if Trump was a sometimes-conservative like Bush or bored and not really present in his job like Bob Dole, would you rather have Hillary?! I came around FR a lot less often, too. In the last few years, I feel like FR has declined, there’s a lot of liberal-like behavior (people being very un-civil), and weird conspiracy-theorists have taken root. There’s also a population of people that have been users since about 2000 that seem to be above the rules and don’t get suspended or banned by their poor behavior. I particularly get sick of people claiming to know something about the military when they never served, wouldn’t condescend to set foot in a govt. office, and have zero idea what kind of manning or resources that it takes to run a weapon system but they’re more than happy to tell you how it is.