So what did you read? Because I loved the Clinton articles in TAS (Troopergate, etc.) and Warren Brookes in the Chronicle - awesome. And NR was still Buckley-influenced back then.
That’s true only if you leave out his glaring indifference to the border and his constant attempt to amnesty illegals
Well, I did say "most of the right things," didn't I? Unfortunately, a Ronald Reagan is a once in a century kind of President. Bush was awful and I warned all who would listen in 2000 that he would wreck the party. Even so, a Gore or Kerry would have been far worse (obviously.) We always choose the lesser of two evils, no?
I learned a lot from Warren Brookes. We may be the only people here who remember him. It’s little surprise that he died in 1991, around the time NR was turned into a playpen for the unemployed brats of well connected Republicans. The great writers who had made the magazine so compelling either retired or were forced out.
Chronicles became my staple. I still subscribe to it, as well as the American Conservative.
“We always choose the lesser of two evils, no?”
There is one freeper with the tagline “Cthulhu, for when the lesser evil just isn’t enough”.