Interesting issue about Trump in today’s column. I suspect this was inadvertent. While attacking National Review, Steyn got tarred too.
Interesting.
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But Trump didn’t like National Review coming at him. So over the weekend he Tweeted an approving link to a two-year-old column arguing that National Review is doomed. Unfortunately for me, its thesis is that National Review is doomed because of the Michael E Mann lawsuit. So, when it comes to global-warming fanatics vs free speech, Trump is apparently cheering for the global-warming fanatics.
More to the point, the column’s argument is that National Review is doomed because of my supposedly defamatory remarks about Mann. The doom prediction isn’t correct, by the way: National Review would survive losing the Mann suit. But I wouldn’t. I’d be over, in every sense. Yet, in Mann vs Steyn, Trump is apparently cheering for Mann.
Which meant that over the weekend I got assailed by various Trump fans who’d carelessly skimmed the piece and erroneously concluded that Steyn “is an editor of National Review”. So I have the fairly unusual distinction of being denounced as both a “Trump sycophant” and an anti-Trump National Review editor. When it comes to Steyn the Trump sycophant vs Steyn the anti-Trump editor, no one is cheering for Steyn.
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