Good article at the link by Jonah Goldberg. He ends his rebuttal thusly, “I’d demand an apology and a retraction, but that would require the Times to understand a perspective outside their bubble. They’ve already demonstrated that’s too much to ask.”
The quote is from the link you provided: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446647/rick-perlstein-new-york-times-essay-embarrassing-wrong
Thanks.
... And the NYT apparently think so highly of this article. Notice it has a full page to itself, red. And it has a lead in, just under the mast, linking to this article.