“Donald Trump’s distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake under water — poses an almost insuperable challenge to people whose painful duty is to try to extract clarity from his effusions.”
I didn’t read the article, and am glad of it just reading this sentence above. But this proves my point that NR is just writing on one theme. There must be a white board up in their offices which has just two thematic words on it to their editorial staff: GET TRUMP.
Really? If a drunk was reading FW underwater with a bullhorn, it would just be Loud, Slow, Unintelligible, and STUPID. Ask the Republican voters in this country if that is how Trump’s speeches sound to them.
Trump is resonating with the American people, whom clearly NR has no respect for at all. He isn’t filled with flowery orations like a carefully written Kennedy or even early Obama speech. We don’t want flowery oration. We don’t even want the bleeping teleprompters. We want the truth. And sometimes the truth needs to be repeated to be remembered. Trump speaks to us like Christie does. Just “Hey. America. This is what is going on. Let’s make it stop.”
The American people like that, and have legitimate hope that maybe Trump can make it stop.
To me, NR sounds like a desperate kid who got caught cheating on his exam and is now hiding in the cloak closet saying he didn’t do it. Spewing guilty lies that there is no point even in listening to.
To me, NR sounds like a desperate kid who got caught cheating on his exam and is now hiding in the cloak closet saying he didn’t do it.
It breaks my heart that National Review has come down to that. I used to wait for each copy with such anticipation back in the ‘80s. Was a tragic end for such an iconic heirloom.