So yes, NR has internal disagreements on some subjects (like how personally awesome Donald Trump is, or isn't.) But "too many people vote" is so common to NR it's almost hackneyed. I'd bet there have been dozens, maybe hundreds of columns making this point.
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NR has split over Trump's personal style. But the anti-Trumpers have generally followed Buckley's posture toward George Wallace et al: Disdain for low-class demagogues combined with conviction that the problem is too much democracy.
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It's often be a mistake to attribute one writers' view to an entire publication. But the desire to winnow the electorate of "unqualified" voters has been a foundational NR position since Jim Crow.
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Also, the standard conservative position is that voting should be more difficult...it’s hard to not see that as a wish that fewer people were voting
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Ironically the reason I think those takes are silly is the same reason I really like William F. Buckley's phone book quote, even if that was not his intended meaning (not familiar with the context).
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It was sort of cute when Buckley made this argument, sort of like a grand duchess clutching her pearls. I don't think he would want to be associated with the current practitioners, but we'll never know.
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Virtually every prominent writer still affiliated with NR loves everything that happened under Trump's term*, they just wish he was less of an uncouth boor about it. I struggle to see any internal disagreements on the site beyond that.
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I heard Buckley speak on this very topic in St. Louis in 1988. His point was not that too many vote. It was that he had no interest in encouraging to vote those who had no interest in the issues.
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Yet they still vote - and some demographics have easier access to vote than others, regardless of interest in issues.
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