The Weekly Standard began as Rupert Murdoch's entry into intellectual conservatism, which would give anybody except a professional media critic a clue as to what kind of publication it would be.
The Standard loved the Iraq war, and couldn't wait to move on to a war with Iran. It promoted Sarah Palin, a politician who gave ignorance a bad name. It treated Barack Obama, twice overwhelingly elected president of the United States, as if he were an overeducated janitor. If anything, it treated Michelle Obama even worse.
Yet, suddenly the Standard is more respectable than Fox News because it doesn't adore Donald Trump--except, of course, for his most damaging policies.
Talk about grading on a curve. The Weekly Standard is superior to Fox News (or Breitbart, or the Daily Caller, or InfoWars) in the same way chemical fertilizer is superior to manure.
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It appears that conservative media in America is devolving to the level of Hungarian media. I hold conservative content consumers responsible for this turn of events.
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So fair and balanced conservative reporting is to end, what a shame for the free press in America.
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"Pro-Trump coverage is to conservative media what anti-Trump coverage is to liberal media — a great driver of internet traffic and ratings."
Maybe this single statement summarizes our problems. Be outrageous or just go away.
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When the free press is no longer free but slandered and ridiculed by egomaniac despots, democracy is in trouble. Perhaps the Trumpsters want to be led by the nose, much like many non-slave-owning Southerners were coerced into serving in the Confederate Army by the plantation owners. A good education and a curious, questioning and inquiring mind are the greatest bulwarks of democracy.
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It is hard to criticize those that don't kow tow to Trump, but there is a reason the centrist establishment has lost support.
The reason is that the centrist establishment keeps taking the side of global corporations against we the people. Notice for example that the Standard supported the $5.5 trillion tax cuts for global corporations paid for by with $4 trillion in tax increases on high-tax-state workers.
The centrist establishment keeps telling the people that the things they need are too expensive while they lavish trillions of dollars on the billionaire shareholders of global conglomerates. The center has completely discredited itself by passing off as reasonable compromise desired by the middle of public opinion the extreme policies of unlimited dark money contributions by the mega rich and their corporations that is corrupting our government, wars for global oil corporations and military contractor profits, turning corporations into citizens, charging America double for substandard healthcare and letting our infrastructure crumble. The center a lie, and the people have figured that out.
Unfortunately, Right-wing populism is a scam meant to use the anger at the center to accelerate the looting of America.
Most Americans actually agree with the left, as does the Constitution, which says that our representatives are supposed to tax and regulate trade to invest in Justice and the General Welfare.
Stop Compromising with those those that oppose the Constitution.
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The poison of Trump is spreading throughout the land. Is it just Trump? Or is it a more insidious disease that divides us, creates straw bogeymen and “enemies” of the state, or were we never the shining beacon of what is good and right in the world?
If even moderate conservatives are under threat of extinction for not showing fealty to this false emperor and his court of power hungry and money-grabbing minionons, our democracy is sure to become lost to future generations.
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It appears that the Weekly Standard was trying to do it's readers a service but they were having none of it. I hope they are enjoying the Trump market. The market and the economy abhor uncertainty and if there is one certainty with Trump it is continuing unrelenting chaotic uncertainty.
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As we have long known, all the Conservative bugaboos, from “identity politics” to “voter suppression”, are merely projections of their own desires and behaviors. No surprise then, that an inability to appreciate “non PC” points of view condemns any alternative media to doom. The driving Conservative “values” of Loyalty and Purity ensure that groupthink will always prevail.
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@JMJackson
As one who might be called a liberal progressive I can say that the same is true for many of those I hang with. We all project our desires and beliefs onto the world and then stand surprised, at what comes back to us. Perception is a mirror, not a fact.
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Is it polite to ask if the Trump supporters understand the importance of such discussions?
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I used to be a devoted reader of the Weekly Standard during the 90s and early 00s — though I’m liberal — because it had a superlative staff of writers (e.g., David Frum before he became Bush’s chief speechwriter, and essayist Joseph Epstein). But I quit the subscription when it went overboard with Obama bashing.
I’m going to subscribe once again; any conservative publication that takes on Donald Trump deserves our support.
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@Steven De Salvo
You point to something else very lacking in our current environment--the ability and desire to seek out views that differ from your own.
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I know very intelligent people with exceptional educations who often tout their Fox News viewership. It's a head-scratcher why some folks seemingly don't care about being lied to so long as there's a kernel of something to be found wrapped in the lie that makes it all good. When intelligent people get into conversations with one of the two spouting Fox News-style misinformation or outright lies, you know why this country is as fractured the way it is. 24/7 conservative talk radio and Fox News will be the end of this country.
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@David
This is a very perceptive comment about our current dumbed down intelligence level among fellow Americans. Some people optimistically claim we will get through this Trump con job. I am not so optimistic about this. The rationale, if you can even call it that, for supporting every crack brained conspiracy idea in order to back up Trump that I often hear from people who ought to know better isn't very encouraging.
If any observant person thinks we've sunk to the gutter values with Trump's election campaign, wait till the election due in 2020 to see America sink even further down the toilet from the disinformation of outlets like Fox now Trump owned "Trump and Friends" and liars like Rush Limbaugh.
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It kind of reminds me of the problem in the Christian community where a small fraction of people who are well-educated in the sciences struggle to defend the theory of evolution against a very large majority who distort, twist and mangle science beyond recognition.
Most of the news goes to the extreme views and deeply taints the perception of the public as to what is going on in the general community, which is surely more diverse.
In the same way, there are conservatives in National Review, Commentary, and the Weekly Standard that are not 100% aligned with the every "word of Trump" (changing from day to day and sometimes from minute to minute); just as there are liberals that are not 100% aligned with the far left.
Perhaps it makes more interesting news, but the most cartoonish characters on the left and the right do not represent the full picture of America.
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@Wayne Dawson
Wisconsin? It all has real world consequences.
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@Wayne Dawson
Sorry, but the left is correct and the right just makes things up to protect the richest and most powerful people in the planet.
Justice is not cartoonish. Justice is the first thing the Constitution says is necessary to protect our Union. The left consistently fights four Justice while centrists compromise with lying cheaters. E.G., the Republican Party in Wisconsin is moving executive functions to the legislature, because there is a Democratic governor.
The right practices identity politics through dehumanizing insults, meant to justify the violence of right-wing terrorists (who have killed more Americans than international terrorists), and corrupted from the top down police departments that kill 100 times more unarmed white men than the average European country, and ten times more unarmed black men than that.
The right is against most of the Constitution (except the second amendment because they want their base heavily armed when they start another civil war) and attack the plain letter and spirit of the Constitution daily. Trump even thinks he can interpret the Constitution by executive order, and his new AG thinks that Marbury V Madison, which established that the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution, the standard understanding for over two hundred years, was wrongly decided.
Read your Constitution. It is a left leaning document, so the right has opposed it at every turn, and is now trying to rip it up.
Human rights are not cartoonish.
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As a conservative paper, The Weekly Standard has shown class these past two years. This "liberal" former newspaper reporter applauds its efforts for trying to be fair and accurate.
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Stephen Hayes is one of the smartest and most reasonable people in Washington. Too bad reporting from the middle is no longer a profitable business model.
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"Pro-Trump coverage is to conservative media what anti-Trump coverage is to liberal media — a great driver of internet traffic and ratings." The scariest part of the entire article. It seems stories are published on whether they can be spun as pro or anti.
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As has been said since the turn of the 19th Century, freedom of the press extends to those who own one.
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This is a good line:
"Pro-Trump coverage is to conservative media what anti-Trump coverage is to liberal media"
Or to be more concise: Conservative = Mobster
The NYT should call them Mobsters, not conservatives.
More forthright. And save five keystrokes every time to boot.
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@Dick Purcell
The difference between Pro-Trump coverage and anti-Trump coverage is that pro-Trump coverage is a big lie and anti-Trump coverage is close to the truth.
Republicans have been lying all along, and used to be pretty good at it, but now they don't even pretend their lies are true because they know their base doesn't care if what they say is true. If lies anger liberals then they are good.
There is no "both sides" here. There are those that are against truth and justice and those that are for truth and justice.
Bill Kristol and the weekly standard are good liars, but few are interested in that anymore.
The establishment center has discredited itself. The right thinks they lie too little and the left thinks they lie too much.
Pick a side
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Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes and Max Boot are a joke. They already sold out to leftwing MSNBC a couple years ago. I can't imagine there is a market for liberals who believe they are conservatives.
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@TL Perhaps they are the true conservatives. There is nothing conservative about Trump and his followers. They have no principles. Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes and Max Boot do. That is why they are vocal about the damage Trump is doing to our country. Conservatives want to conserve. Those three want to conserve our democracy. Trump does not, though it's pretty clear he doesn't even know what that is, nor is he interested in learning it. Appearing on MSNBC does not mean they are no longer conservative. It may mean that they no longer support the current Republican party, which is also not conservative, but is simply self-serving.
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@TL How in the heck are avowed supporters of the free market liberals? That is what the Republicans once stood for. The current Republican party is many things, but conservative is not one of them
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Sad how Republicans demand conformity.
Trump maybe a lot of things, including being a bigot, but he is not a conservative. Conservatives had principles, some of which I agreed with (free trade, fiscal responsibility), and many of which I did not. In contrast, as near as I can tell the neither the modern Republican Party nor Trump have any principles whatsoever.
I'm not a conservative, but I mourn the loss of an intelligent conservative movement that can keep those of us on the left mentally nimble and honest. Debating the Trump minions is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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@Bill White
Republicans never believed in fiscal responsibility. Every time they gain power they raise military spending and cut taxes.
Borrow and spend is not responsible.
Obama cut the deficit in half and Trump has already doubled it again.
And they only believe in free trade for global corporations. Humans have no place in the global trading system. Most trades are done by AI.
Republicans believe in two things. Tax cuts for the rich and a regulation regime that gives power to global corporations at the expense of small business.
Everything else they have been saying for over forty years is a lie.
They don't even care about national security. The Russians are hacking our elections (including hacking into state AG offices, voter rolls, and the vendors of voting hardware and software) and they don't care. At the Black Hat convention last year, a 14 year old girl hacked into a replica of Florida's voting systems in fifteen minutes. They don't care.
People that believe in families don't take babies from mothers and not even bother to keep track of who belongs with who!
Republicans believe in money and power. That is all. They used to pretend that they cared about other things, but with Trump, they don't even bother.
Debating Trump minions is impossible, because they are not interested in logic or truth. Compromise with them is impossible for the same reason. They cannot be trusted because they lie.
We can only beat them at the ballot box, and the court of law.
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The Republican Party exists solely to shovel an ever increasing share of the productive capacity of this nation into the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy. Since Trump is eagerly doing that, there’s no need for any opposition from the right wing.
All the culture wars stuff is just to rein in the votes of the white supremacists; the Weekly Standard doesn’t really oppose any of that stuff anyway. (Who can forget the mental image of Kissinger down on his knees praying with Nixon.)
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@kkseattle
Thank you for your clarity.
Yes, it was Nixon and Kissinger that opened us up to China in the first place.
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Dear Weekly Standard,
I'm a liberal and I'm in. I signed up for a subscription because sane conservative thought helps check me and can help check my friends and colleagues that think like me. Advertise to liberals! Please stay the course and maybe live that want to know how you think can help save you.
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@David E
The Weekly Standard only seems sane in the context of Dumpster Fire World.
It was a whole lot less sane when it was advocating invading Iraq as a way to spread democracy throughout the Middle East. How did that work out, anyway?
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@Paul I have to agree with this, despite commenting in other places in support of the Standard's current stance. Trump has shifted the goalposts so far that the neo-con Standard in comparison seems like "The Economist".
In the same way, we now view Corker, Flake and McCain as moderates, when they were considered fairly to the right compared to the likes of Jack Kemp or Olympia Snowe.
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History will view the Trump crew very badly--not only the "friends 'n' family" traitors and carpetbaggers, but also and especially the elected officials and so-called journalists who went along for the ride. If they don't think their legacy will be tarnished to a rusty cinder--can there be a rusty cinder?--they are fooling themselves, as they have been all along. Politicians and journalists do tend to think about their legacy. May they all have a miserable old age in which nobody is willing to speak to them.
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These anti-Trump "conservatives" are anything but.
They are the Establishment that Trump's base despises -- Beltway Babies who were unable to allow distinct points of view to challenge their stale ideas.
They never got anything accomplished with their salon-style, highbrow politics.
So I'm glad they are now paying the price with irrelevance and business failure.
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These are the people who brought Sarah Palin onto the world stage. If they can endorse Palin, why would they be so opposed to Trump? Because they can't control him?
There's something interesting going on behind the curtain.
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This breaks my heart. I'm a Dem who's really grown to love TWS in the Trump era. They've been fighting for the heart of the GOP. They've been fighting for decency. They've been fighting for their values. I respect their writers greatly.
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With few exceptions there is no such thing (at least any more) as a conservative philosophy or magazine or news outlet.
There is only a quest for power and wealth. What was expedient yesterday in that quest is irrelevant today. Today's expediency is called conservative but only the name remains.
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yay? What is so weird about this is everyone is a villain so it's hard to cheer for anyone. In this case the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. There are virtually no principled conservatives anymore. Kristol isn't. Trump and the craven sycophants who support him have no principles whatsoever.
I see republicans in a kind of Resevoir Dogs scenario with Trump. I hope the ending holds to form.
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A lot of Americans support Trump. If a reader wants to hear 100% negativity about Trump and the people who support him- they simply read outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post. There is simply no market for the Standard anymore- and it should be disbanded or re-branded.
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@Neil James
I am happy to see you stated "A lot of Americans support Trump" since it may seem like a lot to you BUT not the majority of us!
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@KHW
Yes, a majority is not required to win re-election. Believe it or not- there are more states than just New York and California.
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Some people welcome the party guest who steals the silver, uses the bedroom, and kicks the dog. Most are alarmed.
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Well, let's just face it, there is no place in the middle any more. One has to be rabidly anti-Trump or Pro-Trump.
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@Andrew
The middle is still out there, but the establishment "centrists" have been selling us a fake center that represents corporations not humans. That is why the center has collapsed.
Sorry, but their app has been nonfunctional trainwreck for most of two years. How many digital subscribers have they lost in that time because they couldn’t provide even the appearance of basic service? My guess is many. It’s a shame because they have been needed and it sounds like their problems now are of their own making. Trump should send a check to whoever their app developer is
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Why ?
Now what does it say about trump ?
Be worried for this Country, I know I am.
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Never thought that I would find myself offering words of encouragement to Bill Kristol, but when Trump goes down in flames over the next two years - and he is going down, he is so going down - your publication will be one of few untouched by the awful stench and scandal.
Can't forgive you for Iraq - but at least you're not in bed with literally the worst President in the history of this once great nation. After Trump, we've got nowhere to go but up.
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I used to one article at The Weekly Standard daily. However, this summer they started deploying takeover ads that make it impossible to view and article without being a signed in subscriber.
Maybe they don’t realize that many regular but casual readers are there for a fresh take but not a full commitment.
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Not crazy enough for the Trumpists. And THAT says it all.
Seriously.
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The options for conservatives are to kiss up or go out of business. Too bad, as I'm sure Trump's behind is no garden of earthly delights, rather a sewer in which his morality takes form.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
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SIc transit conservatism?
In 1955 the “father of modern conservatism” William Buckley, Jr.'s, mission statement in the first issue of “National Review" stated that his conservative mandate was to stand “athwart history, yelling 'Stop'.”
I don't think he meant, or envisioned, a pivot to the past.
I may be wrong.
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If this doesn't alarm the right, then nothing will. When being on the right of the political spectrum means that you are a trump cheerleader, you are no longer holding a political or philosophical position. What you have done is join a cult.
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Kudos to The Weekly Standard. Most of today's so-called "conservative" publications blindly parrot Trump's (and most of Congress') divisive, reactionary, incendiary, racist garbage. Thank heavens there is a publication that writes for the very few true conservatives who stand for traditional conservative principles. As a progressive, I applaud The Weekly Standard's courage and its owners should not shut down traditional conservative voices.
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I agree and I'm well into the "progressive" camp...whatever that is.
However, I don't think I have all the answers. As an American citizen I believe that argument, in the best sense of the word, is an absolute necessity to a healthy democracy. To lose a responsible opponent is a lose for the nation.
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In Network Propaganda, a new book published by Oxford University Press and currently available at no cost online, three leading experts in network dynamics collected nearly 4 million stories published online during 2016-2017. They then analyzed patterns of interlinking and influence between the sites that published and republished them.
They discovered two media ecosystems. The first extended from left to center right: crazy ideas that began on the far left moved toward the center where they were debunked, lost momentum, and largely faded from view.
The second was a right-wing media ecosystem with two main centerpieces -- Fox News and Breitbart. In that ecosystem, crazy ideas kept echoing back and forth, amplified by leading voices and politicians, with nobody pushing back.
That's the kind of media ecosystem today's conservatives want. And that's why there's no room for the Weekly Standard.
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624
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If Trump & his crew have lost Bill Kristol, they have lost connection with authentic American conservatives. Something heroic about the stance & current predicament of The Weekly Standard.
Nothing of the sort can be said of Donald Trump. Already the Sign has been Given -- & Donald Trump will be swept out of office by a popular mass opposing him.
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Ask the increasing numbers of citizens in the European Union what they think of Obama/Macron/Merkal globalism now.
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Charlie Sykes, right-wing radio host: “I do think a lot of people on the right think of conservative media as a safe space for them.”
At last, an honest conservative, admitting that the right has become a collection of sulky snowflakes who hate science, hate truth, and even hate intellectual consistency if it means having to admit that they were wrong.
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A cult of personality as practiced by Trump needs a media to be his face and words on available public space. Luckily we are a democracy and our institutions are holding despite Trump's constant attacks. The troubling part is a more competent TRump type might be able to establish a dictatorship and the inept erratic aging Trump gave us a warning about an imperial presidency and the danger it poses to our democracy.
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When The Weekly Standard is being treated by its parent company as if it has become some left-wing rag that needs to be suppressed, rather than what anyone else would characterize as still being a strongly conservative magazine, we truly are seeing an example of how even more deranged the far right has become. I won't miss it if it goes, but it looks like it's going to be replaced by something even worse. Good grief!
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after the last few weeks especially it seems kristol, hayes, etc stand on firmer ground than the president.
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May The Weekly Standard go the way of two other Kristol failures: Project for the New American Century - which proposed and, through The Weekly Standard, was lead cheerleader for the Iraq War, and favored U.S. aggression world-wide to achieve American hegemony - and its thankfully less influential successor, The Foreign Policy Initiative.
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Trump is not a conservative. He is destructive.
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After 30 years of waiting, I'm laughing all the way to a 7-2 Supreme Court and an entire generation of originalist judges. In your petty politics overshooting the mark, y'all have missed Trump's big prize at both pegs of the pendulum. Losers.
@Robert L Smalser
So the politicization of the Supreme Court is a goal?
Who practices petty politics?
Who wouldn't even give a hearing to Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court?
Who loses? The United States of America.
p.s. Look to Wisconsin for how Republicans respect the institution of the popular vote. If you lose, pass lame duck legislation limiting the office's power.
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@Robert L Smalser What is originalist about Chief Justice Roberts piously lecturing Congress that he knows more about whether the former Jim Crow states are continuing to illegally violate voting rights? These judges aren’t originalist in any sense of the word. (It’s only now coming to light how baldly Scalia lied when he asserted that the Founders used “bear arms” to mean something other than the actions of a militia.)
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While I've never subscribed to Bill Kristol's philosophical views of the world (or his magazine), he has always struck me as an intelligent gentleman with integrity.
Two qualities in very short supply in today's GOP.
Democracy needs vibrant, intelligent alternative voices if it is to survive.
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@Fred I believe it was a Kristol editorial in 1994 which suggested that the Republican congressional majority did not have to compromise with President Clinton in any way.
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@richard
A citation would be nice but so what?
I didn't say I liked his voice just that it ought to be heard.
There is a difference.
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The Weekly Standard offers traditional conservative Republicans safe space, a counterweight against Trumpism. Hopefully support for such resistance will find a way to sustain the effort. Trumpism is the GOP and that is not a good thing going forward.
It is a shame Paul Ryan did not stand up for his values and those of party of Lincoln. Principle above partisanship. He ducked, bobbed and weaved his way back to Wisconsin.
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@texsun
The "Party of Lincoln" hasn't been Lincoln's party since his death...
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We shouldn't be surprised. Since Trump came on the scene "principled" conservatives have become a vanishing species.
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Just because a publication did not join one public/political bandwagon or another does not mean it should go down the tubes. In the "good ole days" when people sought reliable, accurate news and informed opinions regardless of their origin, such publications had value and added value.
Today the metrics are how much anger and adrenaline can they foster and much feel-good and that awful metric of "happiness" can they create... and of course the scorecard is too often based on the metrics of social media, which themselves capture quite a limited audience and are inherently distorted. Opinions do tend to "come full circle" and old ideas get recycled. Much of what we capture under the term MAGA was part of the NeoCon movement but now its spreads its message under a different name.
The Weekly Standard needs to survive and will eventually thrive again. It should change ownership and/or management and definitely add some new writers who can both break eggs and make an omelette with a new and unique flavor. BTW I am a Centrist.
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As a liberal, maybe I should subscribe to the Weekly Standard. I was wondering where all the rational conservatives had gone. And there's one less today than there was a few days ago.
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The WS is mainly notable for publishing a collection of rants from a collection of deplorables. Apparently, it is not quite deplorable enough for the Twittites, but no doubt something worse will emerge. I used to read it at the local Sushi parlor strictly for laughs, but someone there eventually translated it into Japanese and the owner dropped it like a hot ポテト.
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The Trump / Russia experiment is going to run its course very soon. The Weekly Standard should hang in there for another year or two. Shutting down now would be like selling a stock during a recession and missing the upside, when you're vindicated.
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@Lynn Blair
Unless the Standard can extricate itself from the clutches of Phil Anschutz, no longer burdened with owning the entirety of Mostly Lousy Soccer, they have no control over the publication’s fate.
They can always reconstitute following your mooted vindication.
Freedom of the press extends to those who own one. That ownership belongs to the odious Anschutz.
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OR the people decided. By their own free will folks chose to read/follow other media.
This is not so much about Trump as it is choosing to actively alienate your customers. The Weekly Standard, like too many, decided that being #neverTrump also meant calling all those who voted for him a racist, etc. (despite many voting for Obama twice).
This Clinton voter who did not and can never imagine voting for Trump knew this was going to happen. But casting this as a repudiation of "good" journalism misses the simple rules of capitalism and economics.
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@profwilliams I don't think capitalism and economics should be applied to journalism. People need information - researched, nuanced, across the spectrum information. Not just what the people with the most money or the highest circulations or loudest vitriol want us to hear.
I'm not a fan of WS but I am less of a fan of the dwindling variance in our collective debate.
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@Brenda R I pay for the NYTimes. Happily and for years. Bezos bought the Washington Post. YOU may not think capitalism and economics should apply to journalism, but how else do journalist get paid? Do you prefer State Sponsored Media services like the old Soviet TASS service?
Sorry. But like everything else, journalism and news is subject to the marketplace. Funny though, Trump has helped the Times, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc. thrive. The Standard chose wrong. And now they are paying for failing to consider their readers. Again-- this is very simple.
@profwilliams I expect it has little to do with actual circulation. These small opinion journals all lose money and require being propped up by a benefactor. The difference with Trump is that he is vindictive and unprincipled, and would gladly eviscerate anyone who opposes him. Look how his Justice Department went after the merger over CNN and how he is siccing the Post Office on Amazon because Bezos owns the Washington Post. It’s the stuff of tinpot dictators, and Anschutz likely has decided not to risk his other businesses over it.
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Regardless of the issues facing the publication, the failure to champion Donald Trump, I believe all reputable outlets should and must keep us informed of any leader, Democrat or Republican, warts and all.
To provide a service less that full and open coverage and debate is tantamount to having state run news media in which the leader is hailed continuously.
Yes, much of the burden falls upon the public who have allowed themselves to be dumbed down concerning political figures and allowed themselves to be conned-the fake news screech is the biggest con.
I peruse news from all political spectrums to gain a better understanding of the stories at hand and do not favor "right" or "left". I favor truthful reporting even if the story casts a poor light on a politician that supports an issue I favor. That is news, not propaganda.
Perhaps those who desire an adherence to strict partisan propaganda get the news they deserve, news that has been sanitized to meet the requirements of keeping politicians happy.
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This is a bit misleading. Weekly Standard suffered for its adherence to neocon doctrine, not for opposing Trump. It's an ideology that hasn't worked out all that well.
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