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The End of Fox News Republicanism
National Review ^ | Nov 4, 2026 | Michael Brendan Doughtery

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 ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: boomers; deepstate; foxnews; hannity; limbaugh; murdoch; neocons; newscorp; oreilly; rogerailes; silentgeneration; talkradio
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1 posted on 11/13/2026 1:53:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Trump just represented the sort of Republicanism that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News espoused for over 20 years.


2 posted on 11/13/2026 1:57:33 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s also the end of National Review Republicanism ...

... or maybe that was a few years ago ...


3 posted on 11/13/2026 1:57:47 PM PST by x
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To: x

Let’s see. There’s Drudge and FR. Bloom is off the rose.

Any others? It’s a bummer.


4 posted on 11/13/2026 2:03:43 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It died a while ago. It was just on life support.................


5 posted on 11/13/2026 2:04:07 PM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

NRO RINO nonsense.


6 posted on 11/13/2026 2:10:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. The Republic is gone. )
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To: Fledermaus

NRO RINO nonsense.

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Yep...If National Review “Conservatism” is the future, then there will be no future for conservatism.


7 posted on 11/13/2026 2:16:15 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.


8 posted on 11/13/2026 2:16:55 PM PST by rexthecat
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I presume this review was written by a Liberal Democrat


9 posted on 11/13/2026 2:17:03 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Red Badger
"It died a while ago. It was just on life support................."

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.

10 posted on 11/13/2026 2:25:20 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Lots of MAGA action on X. Of course they do not mention that.

NRO has been useless for quite some time.


11 posted on 11/13/2026 2:32:12 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: All

National Review stopped being relevant when they banned Pat Buchanan


12 posted on 11/13/2026 3:02:09 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

National Review is still around???


13 posted on 11/13/2026 3:16:34 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I rather like the Clairemont Review of Books. Not that it's not quite news really. Nor timely, being a quarterly.

Daniel Liszt is fun for those of us proudly and unabashedly sporting the tinfoil.

14 posted on 11/13/2026 3:31:18 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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