Just 15 months ago, the people at National Review decided to bind themselves together with a few friends elsewhere in the Washington Establishment with an Against Trump edition. They would stop him just as they had stopped Patrick Buchanan and Newt Gingrich…
Now they want back in.
I let my subscription to National Review run out after over 30 years. They are part of the east coast elites and are part of the problem. Good riddance.
Exactly!
Let them go into the dustbin of history.
Huh … I suddenly feel the need to remind the NRO GOPes that I … “whelped” my 3 (very conservative) children, not in some hardscrabble heroin den of American iniquity, but in the cradle of luxurious leftist depravity here in the SF Bay Area. But I did carefully teach my children to discern human frauds from sincere friends. They clearly understood that the GOPes were NOT their friends. They were frauds. That the GOPes had been selling out my children’s (American) hopes and dreams for the PROFIT of a few (in the best case), and selling it for nothing but self-aggrandizement (in the mean). I actually THANK the NRO for making my “whelping” so EASY. My children learned quickly who was kicking them in the dirt like stray dogs … it was the GOPe. It was the very philosophical “repository” of conservatives that were dumping them on the side of some remote flyover road out the tailgate of their new Range Rover. Yeah … thanks GOPe … President Trump RESCUED the Supreme Court from a generation of leftist malaise … and you RESCUED my progeny from a generation of GOPe malaise.
They want BACK IN now that The Donald is BACK IN the foreign adventure biz after telling us in the campaign that we should stay the hell out of foreign hell holes that do not directly threaten our security.
Does N Korea?
Does Syria?
Morever, I hear that while foreign aid is being reduced across the board (good!) it is gonna be increased for the PLO terrorists based on a thoroughly bogus good cop (Abbas) bad cop theory (Hamas, et. al).
But of course The Donald could be playing 3-dimension chess, a view I find increasingly hard to see.
I have no use for progressives calling themselves conservatives. NR had some of those for sure. NR also has some bright guys perhaps more libertarian than conservative (Williamson, Goldberg) who opposed Trump and refused to endorse him after nomination. I respect their adherence to principle when it will likely cost them their jobs eventually. Trump, to me is like Christy Clark. When it comes to the choices on the ballot, the prettiest girl at the pig party. I let my subscription lapse after Mark Steyn left them.
Once upon a time, I signed up for the free issue deal of the National Review. They send you a free one? Kool, said I.
Well, they sent me a free one for five months. They were kinda meh. Not great, not bad, mostly stuff I already knew from the interwebz and/or Rush Limbaugh.
Then they sent me the rudest letter I have ever seen from a commercial concern, informing me that I was A Bad Person for not paying, How Dare You Sir, and informing me that I was cut off unless I sent them money for a two year subscription immediately.
That was the last I heard from the National Review.
“Does N Korea?”
Yes. Weekly. Haven’t you been paying attention? They threatened to nuke the White House this week.
Call me crazy, but I’d say that if a tyrant like Li’l Kim swears he’s going to nuke your national capital, that’s a “direct threat.”
Especially considering that he can do it.
Well,some day Kim will be able to “do it”, but not yet.
I have the feeling if he COULD,though,he would without a moment’s notice.
If Trump decides to take the crazy little f***er out right now,I will have to respect his action. And I doubt very much that either China or Russia would back Kim in that situation.
“He’s an unabashed patriot”……who has/had, if I recall correctly, dual Canadian/American citizenship. Perhaps he’s a ‘slightly abashed’ patriot/
I stopped reading National Review and the other Rino rags.