Didn’t Buckley select these losers who have wrecked his magazine? He was still alive and well when it began going into the crapper. One of it’s earliest symptoms was when it pushed out the immigration patriots and joined the open border/treason lobby.
The libertarian curse.
I don’t know about the transition. Jut 10 years ago, Geraghty wasn’t an idiot. But then again, when completely sound people like Tom Sowell and David Limbaugh go squishy, you have to wond.