National Review and the Tea Party Establishment

establishment media hoped that giving the against Trump cover story outsized attention and oxygen might spark a conservative mutiny before voters headed to the polls. By maintaining a country club like air of exclusivity toward Trump's working class and populist supporters national review created the impression that Bushism had become an orthodoxy conservatives weren't allowed to question as I wrote in my column at the time. "It just seems like a real stupid mistake for them to devote so much of their issue so much of an issue to attacking the leading presidential contender for the nomination," says Lowry.