Sure it’s tough. Those old knees don’t bend easily. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Over at the National Review, old Michael Brendan Dougherty is gently but persistently massaging those knobby and obdurate joints in preparation for November 2024 in a pithy piece entitled Not Trump Again / Only Trump, describing…
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Shorter National Review: Yo, Trump people! WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE!
OK, this is goldarn hilarious—to me, at least. The National Review is throwing itself into a goldarn—or perhaps goldurn—full-court press over the utterly laughable, load o’ shit “Durham Report”, cranking out such utterly laughable, bullshit pieces as The FBI Didn’t Ignore Russian Intel on Hillary’s Plan to Smear Trump — It Abetted the Plan, and…
Who’s stoopider, Noah Rothman, the New York Times, or the U.S. Treasury? Tough call!
Damn right it is. Over at the National Review, hot shot author Noah Rothman, whose best-selling book, The Rise of the New Puritans, trashing those damn West Coast hippies grown old and rich and censorious, which, if I read it, I’d probably agree with more often than not, is on a tear, tearing into those…
Yo, “conservatives”! Haven’t you heard? You’re totally f*cked!
Yes, it’s schadenfreude time around the Literature ‘R Us corral once more, and, yes, it is morally lazy in the extreme to snicker at the other side’s weaknesses without considering one’s own, but life is short, after all, and we’ll soon be in the clay, so before we submit to the clammy embrace of viscous…
The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party? Part II Part 2: Matthew Continetti and The Right
A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
Thank God for Andrew McCarthy!
OK, that was a bit effusive, considering that Andy Mc believes that President Obama should have been removed from office for the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors,1 and, almost as bad, thinks that Ken “Stick Up My Ass” Starr was a good man, which he was not.2 But, well, I came to praise Andy,…
Winds of Change Blowing Through the National Review? Or Is Kevin D. Williamson Just Stupid?
Okay, Kevie D. is not stupid, but he seems to be straying very far from the reservation as staked out by William F. Buckley—generally known as “Saint Bill” around the NR water cooler. As anyone who read Buckley and his Merry Band back in the 1960s knows, the National Review regarded Franklin Roosevelt and his…
You belong to a book club, Mr. Vanneman? That’s VERY interesting! And just what kind of a book club is this, Mr. Vanneman?
National Review lawyer guy Andrew McCarthy is not what I would call a liberal. Among other things, he is the author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency, in which he earnestly pretends to believe that “The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump…
Is Ron DeSantis inevitable? Well, maybe.
The National Review can’t get enough of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and it’s easy to see why: DeSantis drooler in chief Rich Lowry’s review of DeSantis’ bad boy with a Harvard sheen swagger bears the following subhead: “A glimpse at what Trumpism without Trump can look like.” Okay, to some of us that can…
Shorter Ross Douthat: Pay no attention to that orange-haired man with his hand up my ass!
Last Sunday, Ross Douthat ran a column, “Three Paths to Containing Trump”, acknowledging in a fairly straight-forward manner that Donald Trump was a monster, that the danger that he would be the Republican nominee in 2024 was a real one, and that a “strategy” was therefore needed to forestall this danger. The three strategies Ross…