National Review has been doing an apologetic twister game with Trump since the start. While David French might have a clue (sometimes), very often their pieces devolve into party-line stances ignoring the hypocrisy and that the chaos actually hurts the Conservative effort. Then again... Conservatism has been a tool of the elite since the says of William F. Buckley. Many conservatives have sold out and bought into apologist thinking... trying to convince themselves that they are on-path. Buckley, an elitist prig if there ever was one.... still had Trump dead-to-rights...
“Look for the narcissist. The most obvious target in today’s lineup is, of course, Donald Trump. When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America. But whatever the depths of self-enchantment, the demagogue has to say something. So what does Trump say? That he is a successful businessman and that that is what America needs in the Oval Office. There is some plausibility in this, though not much. The greatest deeds of American Presidents — midwifing the new republic; freeing the slaves; harnessing the energies and vision needed to win the Cold War — had little to do with a bottom line.” - Buckley wrote in Cigar Aficionado back in 2000
These days...what is left of the comatose soul and tattered integrity of the Conservative is trying to convince themselves that things are ok as we slide backwards into the maw of oblivion. They disassociate and push hyperbole and rhetoric in its place.
Never Trump was... and remains... a big fat lie because the Conservative soul already gave itself to the devil.
National Review has been doing an apologetic twister game with Trump since the start. While David French might have a clue (sometimes), very often their pieces devolve into party-line stances ignoring the hypocrisy and that the chaos actually hurts the Conservative effort. Then again... Conservatism has been a tool of the elite since the says of William F. Buckley. Many conservatives have sold out and bought into apologist thinking... trying to convince themselves that they are on-path. Buckley, an elitist prig if there ever was one.... still had Trump dead-to-rights...
“Look for the narcissist. The most obvious target in today’s lineup is, of course, Donald Trump. When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection. If Donald Trump were shaped a little differently, he would compete for Miss America. But whatever the depths of self-enchantment, the demagogue has to say something. So what does Trump say? That he is a successful businessman and that that is what America needs in the Oval Office. There is some plausibility in this, though not much. The greatest deeds of American Presidents — midwifing the new republic; freeing the slaves; harnessing the energies and vision needed to win the Cold War — had little to do with a bottom line.” - Buckley wrote in Cigar Aficionado back in 2000
These days...what is left of the comatose soul and tattered integrity of the Conservative is trying to convince themselves that things are ok as we slide backwards into the maw of oblivion. They disassociate and push hyperbole and rhetoric in its place.
Never Trump was... and remains... a big fat lie because the Conservative soul already gave itself to the devil.