You hit the nail on the head. I’ve not been a fan of the National Review for a while and after this latest screed against Trump I really doubt I ever will be again. Its like some of the crap coming out of Glenn Beck comparing Trump to Hitler as if conservatism is incompatible with populism and nationalism (loving ones country and wanting it to win).
Sure Trump has held various positions but that didn’t bother these folks when it was Romney coming late to the prolife cause or when he supported Cap and Trade and then didn’t. They weren’t even concerned that choosing someone who laid the foundations of state run healthcare in Romneycare would be a problem after 2010 and the Democrat rout over Obamacare. That I suppose was different. The only difference I see is one of demeanor and desire to win.
Romney didn’t always win when he worked at Bain Capital many of the businesses Bain tried to rescue ultimately failed yet these same people who attack Trump who has built a worldwide business empire with wealth rivaling Romney many times over is derided as a mere celebrity. I suppose to be respected by the national review and Glenn Beck pukes you have to look like a Mormon super man and just take a beating from Democrats.
I remember how many of them made excuses for Romney saying that he had to take certain policy positions to be elected in a Blue state and that it was understandable that he shifted his positions. I suppose Trump shifting from being a business man with a business based in a blue state doesn’t deserve the same consideration given how leftists like to target and shut down those they see as politically incompatible? I think that Trump surely deserves the same respect.
The part I think really offends those at the National Review is that Trump in the months since launching his campaign has totally taken over the direction of the party.
He immediately killed out the gate any ideas of comprehensive immigration reform and all anyone talks about now is a wall. He destroyed any hope of the goals of the Chamber of Commerce who for a while behaved as if it were in control of the United States Congress not the people who voted Republicans into power. Trump also has did what no conservative since Reagan has done. He took on the media and he has repeatedly won.
Trump’s campaign is the only campaign solely focused on issues that put the interests of the American citizen first economically and culturally. If making sure that Americans aren’t replaced by foreign labor, that manufacturing and other business stay in America, isn’t invaded by illegals, and isn’t culturally over run by those who embrace sharia law isn’t conservative then what exactly is conservatism?
I’m personally tired of a conservatism that behaves as if it has something to be ashamed of and these failures and hypocrites at the National Review and Glenn Beck are really pathetic. The one thing I’m certain of is that they are more the problem than anything Trump is doing. Trump is packing crowds of thousands excited to Make America Great again for Americans. Those who can not see the good in this I am torn between feeling bad for them and see them as absolute traitors to this nation who really have never intended to win. Hell they don’t even know what it means. I suppose they just intended to live out their lives get paid like leeches feeding off a dying nation.
This, and everything else you said!
He is throwing buckets of ice water on the heads of the drugged-by-media populace. I was horrified when he first starting challenging the press and saying what terrible people they are -- "Oh, no! Now they will be terrible to him!" But I see now that it's not his first rodeo, and he is actually challenging those who are salvageable to do better. It will be like a parting of the Red Sea -- we're seeing already the doubling down of the bottom feeders; but in time the ones who want to rise to the surface and once again tell the truth, defying his low opinion and earning a better one, may change the media landscape. Devoutly to be wished.
well said