Posted on 06/05/2023 7:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates.
The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee and Ms. Noonan makes it clear, from the opening paragraph of her latest weekend column that she would not back a Trump candidacy.
Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party." That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: "I mean it literally. The GOP will disappear as a party. Meaning the primary national vehicle of conservative thought and policy will disappear."
As the title of this screed indicates -- "Chris Christie and the Republican Party's Peril'' -- Noonan spends half the column discussing the "expected" entry of the former bullying governor of New Jersey in the GOP 2024 presidential field. (Is such an entry now viable in view of the requirement that all presidential debaters pledge their support for the nominee? Christie backing Mr. Trump? Not likely.)
This is to suggest that Peggy Noonan should receive the Liz Cheney Award for Political Prognostication Premised on Poor Perceptions of Donald J. Trump. More briefly, Peggy Noonan abhors the idea that conservatism should be tempered by populism, rather than elitism.
The neo-totalitarians in our politics are desperately straining to convince the American people that they are incipient terrorists if they support conservative populism, better known today as the MAGA movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“What a disgrace she has become.”
I really enjoyed her book “What I Saw at the Revolution” about the Reagan years. I guess it was due to the subject matter rather than the author.
Unfortunately, Peggy is a good writer. So much opinion writing today is hard to read because it is not reader-oriented.
Too bad she is wrong.
Wall Street Journal is not as sold-out as the NY Post. Occasionally you see an article or opinion piece that is not total Murdoch anti-Trump bllsht, but the paper in general has sold out. They are skating on thin ice in terms of their readership. Most readers suffer the bllsht because WSJ is basically a financial paper.
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