RE: It is somewhat disingenuous to argue that since Lowry allows VDH to write in his rag lowry is somehow now a trump supporter.
I never said he was a Trump supporter. I said he is NOT a NeverTrumper.
There has to be a term for someone who supports Trump when he believes he is in the right and someone who criticizes his policies when he believes they are wrong headed.
The right term could be this — NotAlwaysTrumper. Unfortunately, I don’t see terms like this being used in FR. It is you are either a 100% Trump supporter or you are a NeverTrumper. Nothing in between.
And the National Review is NOT a NeverTrumper publication because there are numerous writers who defend Trump when needed.
So, to say that one should avoid reading the publication is in and of itself an absolutist mentality.
You take the articles on a case by case basis.
The reasonNRhas the reputation of being a Never Trumper magazine is because they published an entire issue devoted solely to Never Trump. They favored electing anyone BUT TRump including the democrat! Additionally, their writers, since the begining of the 2016 campaign, have been uniformly anti Trump.
It is only relatively recently that some of the NR stable has begrudgingly admitted that maybe Trump does do some conservative things. Also, I suspect that part of them coming around has to do with their desire to remain relevant, e.g. Glenn Beck as an example.
We trump supporters did not start a fight with lowry and NR. They dug that hole all by themselves.
We Trump supporters didnt forget either NR and their 100% effort to elect anyone other than trump, nor will we ever forgive romney for his 20minute Trump is a crook speech. Some things dont fade away. THAT is why the FR people hate Lowry and Natl Review. ( That doesnt even consider the fact that the pure NR conservatives never win anything, dont influence any legislation, or really serve any purpose except to collect money from rich benefactors willing to underwrite conservative thinkers.)
Only time will tell if the NR stable is sincere or not. As you can tell from all the comments we really dont care.the burden of persuasion is on them.