1. This is a tempting stance but a bit too glib. No magazine should be judged just by its worst moments. Aside from lots of neo-con boilerplate, The Weekly Standard has had some sterling writing. It's been more consistently anti-Trump than any other conservative publication. https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1070099216326905856 …
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5. Also, The Weekly Standard had a really distinguished books page, one that was old-fashion in the best sense (long essays on serious books), graced by some fine writers (not all of whom are conservatives): Joseph Epstein, William Pritchard, Gertrude Himmelfarb
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6. I've been arguing for the last 3 years that Never Trump conservatism is a dead end, because the actual GOP is becoming ever more Trumpized. The troubles The Weekly Standard faces vindicates this analysis but I take no pleasure in that.
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7. The Weekly Standard facing possible closure comes on the heel of the deaths of Charles Krauthammer, John McCain and George H. W. Bush. It really does feel like a particular strand of the American right is coming to an end.
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When Jeet isn't woke enough for you, you're too woke.
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Good as they are (and they're both good) they're just takedowns of objectively odious people. The fact that they're one of the few conservative publications to ever critique the loonies on their side is very faint praise with which to damn them.
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Profiles of Republican Felons? Mueller has that covered now.
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So...you’re making a reverse “don’t-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater” argument?
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