A week or too ago I took an entirely justified crack at poor old Jonah Goldberg, deservedly lumping him together with the likes of Ross Douthat, Jack Shafer, Daniel Drezner and Ramesh Ponnuru as pussy-footing semi-Never Trumpers for acknowledging that the Big Guy himself was entirely unacceptable while denying that he constituted a real threat…
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Chuck Grassley to semi-Never Trumpers: Suck my aging, wrinkled, disgusting, shriveled dick!
Who are the semi-Never Trumpers? Perhaps the most famous/infamous is Ross Douthat, who recently spent a column, The Once and Future Threat of Trump, desperately trying to explain away the fact that his previous writings on Trump, both before the January 6 riot and after, were politely yet accurately skewered by Robert Kagan in his…
When Jennifer Rubin Does the Cuban
Okay, unless you’re familiar with the swing-band classic “When Reuban Swings the Cuban”—and you probably aren’t—you’re probably guessing that I’m accusing Jennifer Reuban of going communist, and I’m not. There was a time when I spent so much time making fun of Jennie for her passionately Likudist psyche—she once denounced Sen. Rand Paul for not…
Jonah Goldberg, still not getting it
Over at the National Review, the sometimes sensible Jonah Goldberg (but only sometimes) has a cri de cœur so poignant that I feel I have to give poor Jonah a helping hand. In a bitterly worded piece, Jonah explains the suffering he endures watching President Trump’s daily briefings on the coronavirus: “I hate them with…
Trump buys never-Trumper support with Moslem blood, while Iran self-destructs
One hates to see crime rewarded, but that’s what seems to be happening in the Middle East. The outrage over Trump’s outrageous assassination of Qassem Soleimani has been half drowned in the justifiable outrage over Iran’s destruction of a Ukraine International Airlines jet, killing all 176 individuals on board. The Iranian people are mortified by…
Some conservatives starting to show some signs of some capacity for self-awareness and self-criticism. This is encouraging! Somewhat!
The recent, totally unsurprising news that President Donald Trump is wont to discuss official business in a totally unprofessional way over totally unsecured private cellphones that could be easily monitored by the intelligence services of unfriendly nations, done on purpose, moreover, so that his staff won’t know what he’s been up to, has been met…
Cat Fight! Cat Fight!
Whoa! This is intense! Emerald Robinson said mean things about Jonah Goldberg and Michael Doran1 said she was “brilliant” and Jonah said no she wasn’t and so Michael said mean things about Jonah and then Jonah said mean things back and there you are. Well, if you have the patience to wade through all of…
Jonah Goldberg, not much pleased to be called an old man
“There’s always a trade-off,” announces the National Review’s Jonah Goldberg—sounding a bit, to my ears at least, like Jane Austin remarking on the marital inclinations of single men in possession of good fortunes1—“in calling attention to trollish, attention-seeking writers who don’t deserve a response on the merits.” Well, with a throat clearing like that, you…
Rich Lowry, last seen grabbing his ankles like a man
You know what is like rape? Rape is like rape: when it’s inevitable, you might as well bend over and enjoy it. Such is the gist and giblets of Rich Lowry’s recent post over at the National Review, “The Never Trump Delusion”, informing his principled peers that anal rape is the better part of valor—though…
Jonah Goldberg not quite as bad as I previously suggested but almost
Last week I took a poke at National Review dude Jonah Goldberg, suggesting that erstwhile Trump-hater Jonah was learning to stop worrying and embrace the Borg the Donald. I mean, resistance is useless, so why lose your crease over nothing? Well, I was wrong, slightly. Jonah still finds Donald Trump repulsive, and his followers more…