{"id":12519,"date":"2016-01-23T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2016-01-23T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:58:16","slug":"when-did-national-review-become-a-gop-pariah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12519","title":{"rendered":"When did National Review become a GOP pariah?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/27buckley4-600.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12522\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/27buckley4-600-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"27buckley4-600\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/27buckley4-600-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/27buckley4-600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that the National Review was seen as the &#8220;bible&#8221; of conservative thought. The magazine founded by the late, great William F. Buckley was the go-to publication for conservatives to get their view distributed among the masses.<\/p>\n<p>The National Review was the magazine to read.<\/p>\n<p>What in the name of all that is holy is happening?<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee has cut the National Review out of its debate participation. GOP presidential frontrunner calls the magazine a &#8220;failing&#8221; publication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/266679-trump-rips-gop-manifesto-as-national-review-cut-from-debate\">Times are changing, yes?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Buckley might not recognize what&#8217;s happening these days to the conservative movement.<\/p>\n<p>Or that his once-revered publication has been shoved aside. There once was a time when thoughtful conservative leaders would occupy the platform that the National Review provided. They would offer their policy views on this or that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives would embrace them; liberals might not join in the group hug, but they would at least consider the argument made, if only to\u00a0shore up\u00a0their own bias.<\/p>\n<p>We have not entered a new age of wisdom when we toss aside thoughtfulness in favor of anger and shoot-from-the-hip talk-show rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buckley, wherever you are, I wish you were around to talk some sense into these guys who have redefined the conservative movement you once led.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m puzzled. I&#8217;ve always thought that the National Review was seen as the &#8220;bible&#8221; of conservative thought. The magazine founded by the late, great William F. Buckley was the go-to publication for conservatives to get their view distributed among the masses. The National Review was the magazine to read. What in the name of all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When did National Review become a GOP pariah?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[5886,1424,3208,3907,5261],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-conservative-movement","tag-donald-trump","tag-national-review","tag-republican-party","tag-william-f-buckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12523,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}