Goldberg is a fearmonger in service of the establishment, so naturally he would be tasked with things like shepherding conservatives into ineffective positions like apathy and fear, admitting no alternatives.
Goldberg would never have amounted to anything on his own talent; only his mother’s influence got him a writing job. Amazed he keeps it with the utter trash he puts out.
I do appreciate and acknowledge that he wrote ‘Liberal Fascism’ several years before that term as an accurate, concise description of modern-day leftist tactics came into wider use.
I also recall that he admitted early on in primary season (or even earlier) that he had a personal axe to grind with Trump. He didn’t mention it much, if at all, after that but it was clear from his writing and his comments that his opposition was personal more than it was political or ideological. In this he was a bit different to his NR colleagues who simply looked down their intellectual noses at Trump.
But the impossible happened...Trump won the nomination and then the election. Goldberg’s not a total fool so he reckoned he’d better come up with a new touchy-feely shtick in order to survive financially and as a brand name.
He absolutely cops a heap of abuse on Lucianne’s site every time one of his pieces is posted there. I’m surprised they don’t delete comments that are quite vitriolic. Blood thicker than water etc.
To Goldberg I say what Christian (Mel Gibson) said to Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) in the film ‘The Bounty’ after the mutineers had taken the ship: ‘Why do you have to be so damned reasonable NOW?!?’