Yes, it’s taken awhile. National Review conservatives like Jonah Goldberg were repelled by Donald Trump’s vicious nativism, his embrace of those good people who shout “Jews, you will not replace us”, plus all his wild talk about how we shouldn’t be in Afghanistan and that he always thought the invasion of Iraq was a bad…
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Jonah Goldberg, down with both the Inquisition and the Crusades!
Well, first of all, there were a lot of inquisitions, which is just Latin anyway for “inquire”, which is what, you know, inquiring minds do—a lot!—because, you know, they want to know! And the Crusades, well, they were “largely defensive wars intended to beat back the aggression of Muslim colonizers”. My own “take” on the…
Jonah Goldberg, taking 10,000 words (more or less) to suggest that he really really wishes Donald Trump wasn’t president
Jonah Goldberg has a weekly (I guess) column at the National Review called “The G-File”, in which he raps, often at no mean length, about what it means to be the G-Man. In the current iteration, Jonah seems to have a lot on his mind, but his thoughts don’t quite come trippingly to the tongue,…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
The Republican Civil Wars
Over at Reason, Matt Welch is keeping watch over the continuing Republican kerfuffle/steel cage death match being waged by the Trumpians and the Republican Establishment. Matt found a particularly piquant angle, noting the rage with which the National Review has been treating Trump in recent days, after, well, after saying what great ideas he has…
Jonah Goldberg, down with the Inquisition, still going to Hell
President Obama, remarking at a recent prayer breakfast that Western Civilization, and Christianity in particular, has had some flaws, has once more unleashed the floodgates of right-wing outrage upon himself. Among the most ardent defenders of most things Christian is Jonah Goldberg, who explains, and explains away, “the Inquisition” by noting that an inquisition is really just an…
Jonah Goldberg, getting a little tired of the whole Jesus Christ thing
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg notes that, among the many, many, many problems facing the Republican Party—aside from the fact that its sole purpose for existence is to protect the rich—one problem is that Asian-Americans don’t much care for it: I’ve joked for years with my Indian-American relatives and friends that they are…