Posted on 11/13/2026 1:53:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The intellectuals date the rise of right-wing populism to Trump’s 2015 descent down the escalator. But it had the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Fox News for the better part of two decades. The network was run by Roger Ailes, the son of a factory foreman from Warren, Ohio, who had figured out how to make Richard Nixon acceptable on television.
Republicanism as presented by Fox News was not about asserting ordered liberty against the administrative state; it was the experience of being informed on what pinhead was looking down on you and how you’d show them in the end.
Fox News became a kind of neural system for the Republican Party…
The revolution in American politics was older Boomers and surviving members of the Silent Generation putting Fox News on in their living rooms and kitchens and leaving it on all day…
What has replaced it? A new generation of political and financial entrepreneurs running operations online, including former Fox stars such as Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson.
Six of Spotify’s top 13 podcasts belong to former Trump boosters who are attacking him over the war.
There are 40 shows open to Republicans, some tilted toward MAHA, some toward America First, some toward a representation of Reaganism, or to ideas far more exotic.
What is left over of the Fox News Republican Party is consequently acting like a creature whose nervous system has been ripped out. The eyes blink and the limbs twitch, but nothing is sensed through them, and no responses are organized through it. This creature is waiting for some other living thing to take its place.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Trump just represented the sort of Republicanism that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News espoused for over 20 years.
It’s also the end of National Review Republicanism ...
... or maybe that was a few years ago ...
Let’s see. There’s Drudge and FR. Bloom is off the rose.
Any others? It’s a bummer.
It died a while ago. It was just on life support.................
NRO RINO nonsense.
NRO RINO nonsense.
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Yep...If National Review “Conservatism” is the future, then there will be no future for conservatism.
Boomers these days care more about money than politics. Business shows about the stock market, 401k’s, IRA’s, etc are what they watch on Fox. Hannity and the the rest of the evening lineup are fading relics.
I presume this review was written by a Liberal Democrat
I stopped watching Fox News in 2008, and all news programming on all platforms after Obama was selected. I couldn't stand seeing his face, and hearing his voice on Fox News all day after the election.
Lots of MAGA action on X. Of course they do not mention that.
NRO has been useless for quite some time.
National Review stopped being relevant when they banned Pat Buchanan
National Review is still around???
Daniel Liszt is fun for those of us proudly and unabashedly sporting the tinfoil.
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