RIP, Steven Hayes. You've been constantly wrong about Trump. Take your cruises and shove it.
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LOL That’s why its closing. Hayes has been a Never-Trumper from the beginning.
I was a print subscriber to TWS for many years but I dropped them in 2016 for obvious reasons.
The standard part is what did them in.
Two years. That’s all it took...
Add “TWS” to the list of “Broken by Trump”.
Wikipedia’s history becomes a fitting Opus as it chronicles TWS’s spiral around the drain:
In late 2016, Kristol ended his time as editor-in-chief.
He was replaced by Stephen Hayes, the magazine’s senior writer. Under Hayes’ leadership, the Standard continued to be critical of Donald Trump; Trump’s supporters in turn criticized the Standard, and the magazine’s influence in Republican circles dwindled.
In December, 2017, The Weekly Standard became an official fact-checking partner for Facebook.
On 14 December, 2018, the magazine announced that it will shut down after 23 years of publication.
Good riddance.
God bless America.
W-I-N-N-I-N-G !!
Better late than never. As far as I’m concerned, that pro-establishment, faux-conservative rag should have died on the bud 23 years ago.
YES!!!! Now lil Billie Mouth Breather can become the Democrat he always wanted to be. Maybe run for office somewhere as a Democrat. Bye bye quislings.
My understanding is that the Weekly Standard, like National Review, and like nearly all political magazines, never made money.
It has always had the backing of a financial white knight.
The current white knight, Philip Anschutz, who also owns the various Examiner publications, has decided he wants to “upgrade” the Washington Examiner, making a print edition more widely available, by subscription. The rumor is that Standard subscribers will have their subscriptions filled with copies of the Examiner.
By killing off the Standard, the Examiner will get the one thing of value: the Standard’s subscription rolls.
By refusing to sell the Standard or its name, Anschutz assures that no namesake competitor will arise for the affections of the subscribers.
It is said that what did in the Standard was not Bill Kristol’s neoconservative views, nor his anti-Trumpism, but rather, his gross incompetence managing the business. His departure as editor-in-chief in 2016 wasn’t about partisan politics, or Trump. It was instigated by an internal coup to try to save a publication being utterly strangled by an idiot manager.
Gee, best Christmas present ever.
Must admit watching these elitist DC douche-holes go “kerplunk” is one of the most satisfying new items in quite some time.
Mr. Hayes etc. were lost in the labyrinth of a rapidly radicalized neo-Marxist, anti-Constitutional America....as you would expect, The Weekly Standard has suffered internal hemorrhaging.
Oh well. The globalist will always have China.
Thanks goes out to Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes.
Bye!