This was the line Matthew Continetti, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, offered up. “By exiling anti-Semites, Birchers, and anti-American reactionaries from its pages,” he wrote in 2016, National Review had once “determined which conservative arguments were legitimate and which were not,” thus rendering “cranky, conspiratorial, bigoted” conservatives “powerless.”
Conservative Looks at the Right With Surprising Honesty
The conservative intelligentsia greeted the rise of Donald Trump with revulsion that has followed a well-worn script. It laments how the once-grand standards of the conservative movement have fallen into a sorry state. Where William F. Buckley had expelled kooks and bigots from the party, now his heirs were inviting them in.
This was the line Matthew Continetti, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, offered up. “By exiling anti-Semites, Birchers, and anti-American reactionaries from its pages,” he wrote in 2016, National Review had once “determined which conservative arguments were legitimate and which were not,” thus rendering “cranky, conspiratorial, bigoted” conservatives “powerless.”
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This was the line Matthew Continetti, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, offered up. “By exiling anti-Semites, Birchers, and anti-American reactionaries from its pages,” he wrote in 2016, National Review had once “determined which conservative arguments were legitimate and which were not,” thus rendering “cranky, conspiratorial, bigoted” conservatives “powerless.”
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