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"National Review thinks its job is to police the right. We think that our job is to defeat the left."At Instapundit, a long excerpt from a piece by Mark Judge. The full piece is at The New York Sun, behind a paywall. Although often couched in complex political theory, conservative media's internal war boils down to one idea: Some think it's possible to work with liberals while others believe liberals are out to destroy conservatives and must be fought at every turn. Note that anti-Establishment outfits are often called "pro-Trump" when in fact they're not really pro-Trump. I'm not very pro-Trump myself, though I'm very opposed to the sorts of people who reflexively oppose Trump -- not because I love Trump, but because the people who oppose Trump are not doing so because of "His Tweets!" or "His Character!," but because they want to keep the greedy, corrupt DC Establishment in power forever. And you can tell they're not really opposed to Trump and "His Tweets!" because they offer the exact same shrieking denunciations to Ron DeSantis, who doesn't even tweet. This is about the Acela Corridor Lobbyist & Fundraiser crew keeping their phoney-baloney jobs, not about Our Precious Discourse. As always, they are cowardly and deceitful snakes who hiss about honor and integrity but absolutely refuse to state their real agenda and their actual grounds of disagreement. Back to the article: "National Review thinks we can make peace with the liberals in debates over principles and policies," a conservative author, James Piereson, says. "But we can't go too far lest they call us radicals. The other side thinks we are in a wartime situation: the left wants to destroy us. That is a large difference." I was talking with Dave Reaboi and Kyle Shideler and what emerged (not sure who said what, but I came up with this last refinement) is that National Review had been founded as a magazine with a mission of persuading liberal-but-not-communist New York City intellectuals as well as academics of a more conservative way of thinking. By and large it has retained that mission. That's why they just don't care if non-academics get cancelled, but "go to the mattresses" when a libertarian law professor is threatened with a cancellation. It's also why they're pretty liberal. You can't persuade liberals if you're 180 degrees opposed to them. You can only persuade people if you're, say, twenty or thirty degrees apart from them on most issues. You have to seem "reasonable" to them on most issues. At this point one has to ask how much utility there is in trying to persuade New York City intellectuals or academics of two or three points of weak-sister Establishment GOP dogma. The stupid shit that gets Baseball Cvck's nipples stiff. The number of such people who are "persuadable" can be counted on the fingers present at the average family reunion, and they almost all live in cobalt blue states. And for that we're funding a blog that polices the thoughts and speech of the right to make sure it continues to appear "reasonable" to the liberal-but-not-lunatic New York City intellectuals and academics it hopes to persuade? As they bully the rest of the right into behaving "nicely" so as not to scare off these nice new liberal recruits? What kind of an exchange is this? 114 Another way to conceptualize the "policing the right" vs. "defeating the left" distinction is to understand that with the rise of Trump the broad right fractured into three groups: (1) The Kristol types, who were always center-left liberals, but found the conservative movement/GOP useful; (2) conservatives who want to win (this includes very pro-Trump people and those who take Ace's position); and (3) conservatives who want to be left alone. 115 I was talking with Dave Reaboi and Kyle Shideler and what emerged (not sure who said what, but I came up with this last refinement) is that National Review had been founded as a magazine with a mission of persuading liberal-but-not-communist New York City intellectuals as well as academics of a more conservative way of thinking. By and large it has retained that mission. | Recent Comments
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