National Review showed us who they were with the “Against Trump” cover.
I know Glenn Beck did a mea culpa, maybe but did any of the rest?
Particularly Katie Pavlich, did she ever admit she was wrong?
How about Mr. Meghan McCain?
“The tape had been offered as an exclusive to the Wall Street Journal.” The tape simply supports the conclusion that some conservatives do not support patriotic Americans which everyone knows is true and makes me feel pity for the individuals in the group of “some conservatives” who are fakes and losers.
Is this “tape” a huge bombshell like the ones Lin Wood claimed to have?
Many of you who follow me on Twit know my thoughts on this.
NONE of these guys-—Frenchfry, Goldburger, Geraghty, Hayes, Kristol-—were ever, ever conservatives. They were the paid Washington Generals of the media/cocktail circuit.
Their job was to show up, state the “conservative position” that EVERYONE KNEW would never become reality. Then at the end, grin like baboons, and say, “Of course, we know that’s not going to happen.” They then walked off with their thirty pieces of silver.
The problem arose when Trump arrived on the scene. Even before he was president, these dill-wads knew he meant what he said. They knew if it was humanly possible Trump would enact into policy and law those things he actually said.
And that terrified them.
It got worse after the election and he DID those things.
Do don’t be fooled. None of these toadstickers were ever conservatives in their lives. They were court jesters performing.
I spoke w/ Goldberg at a “conservative” event in DC in the late 90s as he was becoming the anointed one.
Arrogant p.o.s. I’ve not been surprised by anything he’s said or done since.
Frankly, the rest of the 90’s DC conservatives were just a bunch of tools. Only a few that I met stood out, like Balint Vaszony, Walter Williams (not of DC), and ... uhm, can’t think of anyone else who wasn’t a self-serving fraud.
Thankfully, I after found FR.
Btw, great article. Thanks for posting.
David French was himself removed from the magazine a few months later! Where did he go? Well, he went to work for Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes and their little newsletter of course. The three of them were now free to plummet into new depths of unpopularity together. The most intellectually bankrupt and vitriolic of the Never Trumpers had finally been thrown into the dustbin of history.Did the editors of the National Review learn anything from this debacle? Of course not. The feckless Rich Lowry recently handed the magazine over to the world’s only living Evan McMullin voter Ramesh Ponnuru — who was absolutely nobody’s choice to steer the magazine back to popularity. (If anything, Ramesh Ponnuru represents an even greater slide into snide effeminacy than Lowry, and few thought that was possible.) Defeat seems to be the brand for these boys. In any culture war, Rich Lowry and the gang have always been the first to stand athwart history, crying: "We surrender first!” They’ve been so weak and defeatist during the Trump years that a year's subscription to the magazine could be marketed as an estrogen supplement.
I wondered where National Review got its financing. It certainly wasn’t from subscribers. I figured Soros was involved.