I agree 100%. Some of the stuff I read on American Thinker seems to have been written by idiots.
The quality of "conservative thought" is down considerably since the Reagan years. It's hard to find clearly articulated expositions of conservative principles even in paid publications. Written arguments are continually recalibrated for the short attention spans of social media users - leading to shallow pieces that are less convincing to the casual reader than the emotional screeds of the collectivists.