The 4th anniversary of National Review's suicide

Don Surber Blog ^ | 01/25/2020 | Din Surber

[TTFlyer]

I have heard rumors that NRO is one RINO mega-donor away from extinction.

[IWontSubmit]

[ClearCase_guy]

And plenty of the never Trumpers are still prepared to say, “Yeah, but his tweets! Those are ... they’re ... well, they’re sort of ... rude. Ya know?”

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The National Review is the press representative for establishment Republicanism - losers who are useful mostly as punching bags for Democrats.

[LeonardFMason]

National Review = Swamp Times

Not missed for a minute.

[SeekAndFind]

I think of the authors on that cover, the following are now NOT #NeverTrumpers and have realized their mistakes:

Andrew McCarthy
Cal Thomas
Glenn Beck
Katie Pavlich
L. Brent Bozell III

[Fungi]

Should have gone the way of the Weekly Standard. Intellectual elites have no honesty and are too ashamed to admit it.

[Nateman]

National Review came out against Any Rand. This resulted in Any Rand carefully checking the guest list of any party she was invited to. If William F. Buckley was there she would not go.

[IWontSubmit]

I think of the authors on that cover, the following are now NOT #NeverTrumpers and have realized their mistakes:
Andrew McCarthy Cal Thomas Glenn Beck Katie Pavlich L. Brent Bozell III

Yes. Although A. McCarthy took a disappointing long time.

[BobL]

“Its writers were sharp, gifted and irreverent.”

UPDATE:

“Its writers were sharp, gifted and IRRELEVANT.”

[Chickensoup]

like Romney

[Lurkinanloomin]

Maybe, but I will never forget.
They will always be suspect.

[Chickensoup]

Also Thomas Sowell

[be-baw]

I say good riddance. That issue turned me off to them for life.

I subscribed to the mag for a couple of years and Buckley was still running it. I got turned on to it by Rush, and read every issue in its entirety.

The beginning of the end came when Jonah Goldberg was put in charge of National Review Online. That dude ain’t right in his head. I never understood why he had such a good rep as a writer because I found his righting sophomoric. About on the level of a writer for a high school newspaper.

I really want them to fold....or better yet, be sold. To a group that has true conservative values.

[SmokingJoe]

True. In fact they are now some of Trump’s strongest, most effective supporters.

[DrPretorius]

Also Thomas Sowell.

The inability of Sowell to recognize the genius of Trump given his large body of work in discerning economic trends was a revelation to me because I realized that lowly little old me had greater insight and better judgment than the best of the conservative elites. I realized why the conservative movement had always lost ground even though libraries full of conservative screeds had been written and published over the years. The fact of the matter was the conservative movement had its own ivory tower intellectualloids just like the Marxocrats but the Marxocrats had a kick ass sensibility and shock troops to foist their crap on weak and trembling conservatives. We had no general who could control the battlespace practically forever. Even Reagan couldnt do what Trump is doing. Trump is a phenomenon who is like George Washington or even Julius Ceasar. We will never see his like for a hundred years.

[Timmy]

It’s not fair to try to compare Trump to Reagan. Reagan’s overarching mission was to weaken and destroy the Soviet Union. Everything else was secondary to him, and he was willing to compromise to maintain that focus. Even so, he accomplished additional great things. As with all who followed him, Trump is the beneficiary of Reagan’s greatness, and governs in a world far different than that Reagan inherited. Both are great Presidents, for whom we should be very grateful.

[odawg]

“All that ended on January 22, 2016”

National Review had committed suicide long before that date.

[Fungi]

Well said.