Posted on 10/08/2019 10:51:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
This has to be a joke.
Like Mitt Romney, they believe that if they just keep telling people that they really are conservatives then the general public will buy their garbage.
“Stupid is as stupid does”. (Forrest Gump’s mom)
The Dispensary
For cuck cool-aid.
Well said
I have read their work for many years — and I have a broad view of who is a conservative. Thst is why I was willing to embrace Trump early, to the dismay of even close friends among my fellow GOP consultant and party staff types.
Thought up a real good scam, didn’t they?
“ A matching set of assholes.”
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You’re being generous. I almost puked when I saw Hayes back on the air at Fox. And Goldberg; he’s dumb as a sack of rocks. Both of these deep swamp never Trumpers IQ’s if added together would reach room temp. I change stations whenever either come on Fox. Screw’em.
Two more reasons why I don't consider myself to be a conservative. I'm a Trump voting, America.
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I hear you.
I subscribed to NR from 1977 to maybe 1991, which is around the time that Buckley handed it off to the hacks that began selling Bushism as conservative. Goldberg and Hayes are a couple of runts from the litter that wrecked NR.
” I have a broad view of who is a conservative. Thst is why I was willing to embrace Trump early, to the dismay of even close friends among my fellow GOP consultant and party staff types.”
I would bet that they would be the same consultant/party staff types who hated Buchanan. They can usually be counted on to have no use for social conservatives, traditional conservatives, and especially paleo-conservatives. Paul Ryan would be a hero to these GOP vermin.
The late Sam Francis influenced Buchanan, and I suspect Trump as well. Trump shares the economic nationalism, the desire to put American interests first when it comes to immigration, trade, and foreign policy. To avoid getting entangled in never ending wars and nation building.
Keep in mind that conservatism lost much of its coherence in that era due to the end of the Cold War, a booming economy, and Bushite moderation. Just what issues was NR supposed to advocate? They never quite settled on what they stood for.
My friends and colleagues from that era have razor sharp political minds and are conservatives. And, for the record, conservative issues and ideas were and are routinely used when the polling shows the public to be inclined that way. None of them saw Trump as having a chance though, which made me an oddity in those circles.
Indeed, unlike even Trump and his team, on election day I saw Trump as winning. At almost the same moment on election night that Trump lost hope, my read of final polls and state level returns saw him as winning.
“Just what issues was NR supposed to advocate? They never quite settled on what they stood for.”
Everything that they should have stood for was being outlined by Sam Francis in his “middle American radicals” writings. But that stuff didn’t at all interest the globally oriented executive suite crowd that made up Bush Republicanism.
What finally soured me on National Review was when they became part of the open borders lobby. They ran off Derbyshire, Brimelow, and anyone else who didn’t embrace the Bush idiocy. This was in the early 1990s, when we still had a chance to keep California from being overwhelmed. When California grassroots were passing Prop 187 the NR crowd was an open enemy.
All too true. The open borders lobby seems to have included quite a few of NR’s major donors.
1. If you want a friend in Washington, buy a couch. Jonah Goldberg muses on the personal cost of his political journey.
2. Pharisaical? Moi? David French responds to criticism that his Christian conscience is infinitely selective, and flexible.
3. Sorry. I can't think of anything for which Stephen Hayes sufficiently well known to be a topic for satire.
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