18. A further problem is that, as with Birchers, NR doesn't have clean hands here. Trumpism incubated in magazine.
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19. NR did purge the paleo-cons but it published them first. In pages of magazine you could see seeds of ethno-nationalism spouting
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20. In erstwhile NR alumni Sobran/Francis/Buchanan/Brimelow one saw embryonic alt-right positions on white identity, trade, foreign policy
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21. The paleo-cons were purged in 1990s not for anti-Semitism or racism but for opposing Iraq War & permanent USA interventionism
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22. National Review conservatism has always been an uneasy alliance between the snobs and the slobs, pseudo-aristos & splenetic plebes.
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21. NR's tight rope: have enough red meat to attract base but code it in ways so magazine remains respectablepic.twitter.com/W83afYa0pg
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23. Bottom line: I'm happy to see Trump denounced, not sure it will have much of an impact.
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24. More interesting question is what happens to NR if Trump becomes nominee? How do they navigate a fissure between magazine & GOP?
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26. Last point; some contributors to NR's anti-Trump issue are as irresponsible as Trump himself (Glen Beck, Brent Bozell).
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27. Exhibit A for point # 26.: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/690363633377878016 …
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