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The genial Jeet Heer of what we used to call Even-The-Liberal-New-Republic is flummoxed, and he's not the only one, by the Atlantic's hiring of Kevin D. Williamson not just because he's a colossally bad, pretentious and malapropic writer (in The Atlantic of all magazines, whose founders included Emerson and Longfellow and whose first editor was James Russell Lowell, with a history of immense literary distinction down to Ta-Nehisi Coates), not just because he's unable to refrain from insulting persons of genders or skin colors other than his own—but just because who cares what Kevin D. Williamson thinks, or the brave little coterie of anti-Trump conservatives in general (including Bret Stephens recently posted from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times, and Megan McCardle from that same Atlantic to the Washington Post a movement of less intellectual significance now than it has had for more than 60 years, a bunch of utterly discredited cranks with no ideas at all:
On the Kevin Williamson thing, leaving everything else aside, I'm just puzzled by mainstream editors elevating Never Trump conservatives, who nearly rival tankies for political irrelevance.— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 24, 2018
So I believe I actually have a piece of an idea:
They honestly believe America needs a respectable right wing--not one they'll agree with but one they can argue with in a reassuring, clubbable manner.— YastronomicalOdds (@Yastreblyansky) March 24, 2018
But working, obviously, with a fogged vision of what conservatism is, they don't know how to evaluate the candidates very well.— YastronomicalOdds (@Yastreblyansky) March 24, 2018
Atlantic lucked out with Frum, who's exactly the right sort, shallow in his winger convictions and a pretty good writer.— YastronomicalOdds (@Yastreblyansky) March 24, 2018
Atlantic lucked out with Frum, who's exactly the right sort, shallow in his winger convictions and a pretty good writer.— YastronomicalOdds (@Yastreblyansky) March 24, 2018
Atlantic, NYTimes and Wapo, NPR and PBS can never create the conservatism that works for them and their earthly-paradise picture of poltics as it should be, but they can't stop trying.— YastronomicalOdds (@Yastreblyansky) March 24, 2018
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