Last week, National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke issued “A Long Goodbye to Trump,” declaring in his article that it’s time to get over the former president and that it’s going to take a team effort by conservatives to topple Trump, “bit by bit, day by day, cut by cut, sigh by sigh.”
Cooke’s piece was unsurprising, being that National Review is the embodiment of the Washington establishment GOP, and that this same publication ran an entire issue in the winter of 2016 titled “Against Trump,” writing, “Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”
N.R.’s distaste for Trump has more to do with style than substance, and even to this day, the bulk of its arguments against Trump have little to do with policy. NeverTrumps are revolted by him because he had the audacity to position himself among the Washington GOP establishment as if he were their equal — as if he had come up the political ranks and had been approved by the party’s cultural and political gatekeepers — which he certainly had not.
“Ultimately, voters who want to rid the GOP of Donald Trump need to decide whether we truly mean it when we say that he is uniquely unsuited to office, and to tease out what that means in practice,” Cooke writes in his piece.
But Cooke never explains what “uniquely unsuited to office” means. NeverTrumps rarely do. It’s implied that Trump is wrong because he’s the result of “free-floating populism,” which is another way of saying the common person is too dumb and classless to understand what’s good for him or his country. Only the polished, college-educated, politically established Beltway conservatives know what’s best. Everyday folks from middle America need to pipe down and listen to the experts.
National Review, aka NR, used to be a worthwhile magazine for Republicans and conservatives to subscribe to or to read online. Those days are long past and won’t return. NR has far more ex-subscribers than current ones. It’s been a self inflicted demise as NR has flogged failed ideas and candidates in its quest to go completely RINO. Its founder is spinning in his grave fast enough to generate electricity due to its altered philosophy.
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