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Why We Lose: National Review Launches Victorian-Era Attack On Donald Trump
Breitbart ^ | 1/22/16 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 01/22/2016 11:17:23 AM PST by jimbo123

Whatever you might think of National Review's Thursday night attack on Donald Trump is beside the point. That's not what I'm here to talk about. Just forget about The Establishment versus... Trump versus... This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with tactics and media savvy. There are many fine people at National Review, smart people, which is why the incredibly lame and heavy-handed execution of this "broadside" against Trump is something worth talking about.

Conservatives cannot win elections, most especially national elections, living in the 19th century. If you are going to go to the trouble of building what you believe is a Nuclear Bomb - and a full issue of National Review devoted to annihilating Trump is obviously crafted with that in mind - you have to also build a 21st century delivery device.

All that time, all that work, all that effort, all that organization, and by noon the next day, because of a terrible launch platform, National Review's nuke has already belly-flopped and disappeared into the sea.

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This is 2016. Opinions are not changed with the drop of a magazine filled with Very Important Thinkers espousing Very Big Thinks about How We Should All Think. This approach only backfires because it looks self-important, stuffy and conceited from good people who are none of those things.

If I may paraphrase the Coen Brothers: Nobody likes the high hat.

Drudge doesn't issue proclamations.

BuzzFeed doesn't issue proclamations.

The Mainstream Media doesn't issue proclamations.

Hearts and Minds are changed through Narratives - narratives built over time and tested with carefully-crafted storytelling, characters, caricatures, tweets, Facebook posts, attention-grabbing headlines, pictures, videos, and yes, even gifs.

The only message coming out of this National Review issue today is that A BUNCH OF FAMOUS CONSERVATIVES PILED ON DONALD

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1 posted on 01/22/2016 11:17:23 AM PST by jimbo123
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bookmark for later, for when I am allowed to talk about this stuff


2 posted on 01/22/2016 11:21:21 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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The eyes of those four show absolute terror...


3 posted on 01/22/2016 11:21:31 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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LOL!!


4 posted on 01/22/2016 11:22:28 AM PST by gibsosa
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tit-tat

I'm calling it a day, headed to the ice-house for a cold one and talk football.

5 posted on 01/22/2016 11:23:33 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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The only message coming out of this National Review issue today is that A BUNCH OF FAMOUS CONSERVATIVES PILED ON DONALD

It looks like these people spend all their time talking to each other, and pay little attention to what is really going on... Either ignoring it, or stupidly dismissing it.
6 posted on 01/22/2016 11:24:20 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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“National Review isn’t hurting Trump, like a Keystone Cop, National Review is stepping directly into his well-honed anti-establishment narrative.”


7 posted on 01/22/2016 11:24:33 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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The more these idiots go after Trump, the stronger he gets. They are clueless, arrogant and I used to like Bozell.


8 posted on 01/22/2016 11:24:46 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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I am making note of all of those national Review minions involved . They shall never have my attention or respect again . Make note folks


9 posted on 01/22/2016 11:26:08 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Does anybody know the writers in this NR smear volume?
Did Jonah Goldberg add his bitter two cents to this list of Cruz sycophants and Bush operatives?


10 posted on 01/22/2016 11:26:18 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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what a Bozo


11 posted on 01/22/2016 11:26:36 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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Livid @ the Elites
https://youtu.be/PytWoOvzBhA


12 posted on 01/22/2016 11:26:43 AM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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Bozo Bozell is a joke. These people redefine Conservatism into complacent capitulation to far left agenda. They are “global interventionist” who make up stuff to attack sovereign nations. for profit but you get the bills.They are cultural assassins using political correctness to shut you up. They hate the TEAPARTY.
They now have no place to go. Their party is ours now. My GYN kelly is total history. Haven’t watched he in months.


13 posted on 01/22/2016 11:28:06 AM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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You know NR is screwed up when they booted John Derbyshire and Mark Stein over political correctness.....


14 posted on 01/22/2016 11:29:58 AM PST by yadent
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[The eyes of those four show absolute terror...]

The faux outrage last night was absolutely ridiculous!


15 posted on 01/22/2016 11:30:46 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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National Review is about to find out irrelevant they are in the upcoming state elections.


16 posted on 01/22/2016 11:30:47 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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This fear of winning is beginning to sound familiar. Think of Trump as a type of Caleb. Why spend 40 more years in the Wilderness?

Number 13
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
33 “There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight,
and so we were in their sight.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (pp. 143-144). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.


17 posted on 01/22/2016 11:31:11 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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National Review doesn't represent "us". Buckley himself seemed to never quite get Reagan nor did he seem to get Milton Friedman, freedom's champion. It seems that sometimes "conservative" is not always a friend to freedom.

Forgetabout NR and the part of the "establishment" they represent. Even the term "conservative" implies a sort of preservation of the "status quo" which is not what we need. Of course we need to Re-Establish the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land. But the status quo, the way things are now including the bloated unconstitutional government and many of the unconstitutional laws, need to be nuked.

18 posted on 01/22/2016 11:32:03 AM PST by Jim W N
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When did these NR hacks ban together to fight Obamacare?
When did they ban together to fight bailouts?

When did they ban together to get rid of Bonehead as Speaker?


19 posted on 01/22/2016 11:32:07 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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“The Stuffy White Community Frowns Upon Your Actions.”


20 posted on 01/22/2016 11:32:46 AM PST by JennysCool (My hyprocrisy goes only so far.)
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