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The National Review Would Like You to
Stop Upsetting the Left

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Posted By: OhioNick, 5/11/2021 1:36:15 AM

In 1867, Karl Marx published Das Kapital. And it was Trump’s fault. Or as Jim Geraghty at the National Review argues that the "the most lasting legacy of the Trump presidency will be a culturally dominant progressive left." Geraghty blames President Trump for undermining a strategy of polite surrender that is exactly the reason why the Left dominates our culture (as it has for 70 years), our politics, and now even corporations. The culturally dominant progressive left that the National Review was built to fight against, before it decided to instead fight against Trump, was around long before Trump was born.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 5/11/2021 1:37:38 AM (No. 781478)
I gave up on NR long ago. They are worse than useless, they have become harmful.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: qr4j 5/11/2021 1:51:38 AM (No. 781497)
I wish real conservatives could organize a massive mail dump on NR with notes and letters telling them how out of touch they are. They wouldn’t listen. But they deserve some dumping given how they’ve spit on the common person with their arrogance.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 5/11/2021 7:51:29 AM (No. 781605)
Standing athwart history, yelling hey wait for me. Until recently, those reading NR never desired to sit with the cool kids in the lunchroom. Those involved with this magazine need to read Witness, God and man at Yale, and every back issue until their hands turn blue. The lack of appreciation these cretins have for the NR history and movement is most unsatisfactory. No charm. No wit. No class. No influence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: philsner 5/11/2021 7:56:07 AM (No. 781611)
That is absolute nonsense. However, it is the strategy of the GOP. It's the same thing as saying, "Don't upset the terrorists and they will leave us alone".
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Reply 5 - Posted by: downnout 5/11/2021 8:00:02 AM (No. 781617)
National Review died with William F. Buckley.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: HotRod 5/11/2021 8:19:33 AM (No. 781638)
''Just relax and enjoy the rape, maybe the man won't hurt you...''
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Reply 7 - Posted by: john56 5/11/2021 9:09:13 AM (No. 781694)
William F. Buckley, Jr. must be spinning in his grave.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 5/11/2021 9:31:57 AM (No. 781737)
Hear! Hear! ——-> #5 & #6 What a bunch of old women with nasty minds NR is (that includes you, Jonah)
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Italiano 5/11/2021 9:57:34 AM (No. 781779)
What's really pathetic about National Review and the rest of those Sad Sack Never Trumpers (aka, the “Intellectual and Moral Conscience and Leadership of the Conservative Movement on Planet Earth”) is that nobody outside of their little circle listens to them anymore, pays any attention to them, pays to participate in their pathetic cruises or gives them any credibility. They are finished and they know it. The Trump Presidency that they fought and whined about all the way was a success by any conceivable measure. They hate that fact and they can't admit it, so they write these little petulant post-it notes to each other and their slobbering Twitter followers, and stomp their feet while the country goes completely to Hell under the Democrats and their Republican Never Trump accomplices. We've had it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: czechlist 5/11/2021 10:10:55 AM (No. 781805)
??? Seems to me Trump delayed the progressive left's agenda and could have all but buried it in a second term.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bigfatslob 5/11/2021 10:28:19 AM (No. 781829)
National Review is like Fred Luntz totally useless and wrong but they have 'standing' so they believe. Trump was right all along.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 5/11/2021 11:07:51 AM (No. 781871)
Actually Trump was the first Republican President since Nixon to actually mount a challenge to the Left's cultural dominance. Notice that the Left pays absolutely no attention to National Review.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: MickTurn 5/11/2021 6:53:19 PM (No. 782357)
National Review...POUND SAND HARD, then start OVER!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: deerejon 5/11/2021 8:15:25 PM (No. 782423)
The reason the Left Dominates our culture,Is because the Republicans allowed it to happen.If they could ever grow a pair,and find their spines,we would not have this mess that we are in now.All we get is Meely mouthed RINO'S.So all we have now is the Uniparty.
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