National Review Is Not the Authoritarian Conservative Voice

National Review editor Rich Lowry rounded up 22 conservatives to write essays in an effort to take down the menace to American conservatism Donald Trump. The move was roundly castigated by conservatives and was a public relations disaster whose damage only grew after Donald Trump's historic victory. Some of the signatories were my friends including people like Bill Crystal Glenn Beck Eric Erickson Brent Bozle Dana Lash Michael Medved Katie Pavlich John Potarets Thomas Sowell and Cal Thomas this wasn't the first time national review tried to excommunicate conservatives in 2003 they launched a similar effort in a cover story called unpatriotic conservatives back then they were gunning for Pat Buchanan and the late Bob Novak there