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Never thought I'd quote the 'National Review
“Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of
generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless
and crude as the Donald himself,” the magazine declared.
National Review also collected essays from 22 conservative leaders who offered their own reasons for opposing Trump’s candidacy. The names ranged from former Fox News star Glenn Beck to former U.S. Attorneys Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey to prominent Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore to online provocateur Erick Erickson, the founder of the conservative blog RedState.
The magazine’s dramatic move comes as Trump has regained the lead in polling in Iowa, which carries enormous influence as the first state to vote in the primary process.
National Review’s complaints against Trump ranged from his liberal positions in the past on abortion, gun control, health care and taxes to what they deemed to be his lack of knowledge of the details of his own immigration plan.
“In one Republican debate he clearly had no idea what’s in that plan and advocated increased legal immigration, which is completely at odds with it,” the magazine’s editors wrote.
National Review is very hawkish on the immigration issue itself, generally favoring reducing legal immigration in addition to illegal immigration. They stated in their editorial that Mitt Romney’s support for “self-deportation” as the Republican nominee in 2012 was “entirely reasonable,” and note that at the time, Trump criticized Romney over it.
A theme throughout the editorial and many of the essays is that Trump presents himself as a “strong man” to fix the nation’s problems, whereas conservatives believe that power should be as decentralized as possible. “No one can be fully trusted with public power, and self-government in a free society demands that we reject the siren song of politics-as-management,” wrote Yuval Levin, editor of the conservative journal National Affairs."
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National Review also collected essays from 22 conservative leaders who offered their own reasons for opposing Trump’s candidacy. The names ranged from former Fox News star Glenn Beck to former U.S. Attorneys Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey to prominent Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore to online provocateur Erick Erickson, the founder of the conservative blog RedState.
The magazine’s dramatic move comes as Trump has regained the lead in polling in Iowa, which carries enormous influence as the first state to vote in the primary process.
National Review’s complaints against Trump ranged from his liberal positions in the past on abortion, gun control, health care and taxes to what they deemed to be his lack of knowledge of the details of his own immigration plan.
“In one Republican debate he clearly had no idea what’s in that plan and advocated increased legal immigration, which is completely at odds with it,” the magazine’s editors wrote.
National Review is very hawkish on the immigration issue itself, generally favoring reducing legal immigration in addition to illegal immigration. They stated in their editorial that Mitt Romney’s support for “self-deportation” as the Republican nominee in 2012 was “entirely reasonable,” and note that at the time, Trump criticized Romney over it.
A theme throughout the editorial and many of the essays is that Trump presents himself as a “strong man” to fix the nation’s problems, whereas conservatives believe that power should be as decentralized as possible. “No one can be fully trusted with public power, and self-government in a free society demands that we reject the siren song of politics-as-management,” wrote Yuval Levin, editor of the conservative journal National Affairs."
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January 21, 2016
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