“I had asked him whether we were going to make it, basically. Whether the constitutional “guardrails” in our country would hold. Whether our democracy would soldier on. “That’s in our hands,” he said. It’s up to us.”
Welcome Jay, and thank you for your thoughtful analysis. That said, I have a question. While “nothing is written,” my fear is people are being misinformed through disinformation campaigns running rampant on social media and the use of nefarious algorithms.
Therefore, my question is, given the consolidation of the entire media sector which will be controlled by four or five corporations and billionaires by year’s end, including the sale of TikTok, how are we to fight this with any chance of success?
Additionally, If people are being denied the proper knowledge in order to make informed decisions, what are our chances of prevailing, when all of these billionaires and corporations who control the flow of information have pledged fealty to Dear Leader, and are using their platforms to promote Trump, and denigrate his rivals?
But in the movie, after he says "nothing is written," Lawrence is forced to execute the man whose life he saved. So...it was kinda written after all...
Trump…and his former editor forgetting his own magazines founding ethos to stand athwart history, I mean remaining stalwarts “AGAINST TRUMP”
God help U.S. At least we can still count on Jay and Gary to aim there pens at the clear and present danger that is the cult of Trumps personality ✌️be with you
American conservatism has been left to rot for fifty years.
I believe that classical American conservatism has three pillars: limitation on Governmental authority over the individual; the political realism of Lord Acton; and a stubborn affinity towards American traditionalism, suggesting innovation and progress is all too often the rehashing of forgotten failure.
I can imagine the return to prominence of such sturdy paths of thought, of Buckley over Welch and the Birchers. But Buckley is long dead, and Kirk has replaced John Birch in the new Conservative pantheon.
My father, Norman Ture, was President Reagan's undersecretary of Treasury. His work was on tax reform and fiscal policy. He co-wrote the Reagan tax cuts. Twenty years earlier, he had written the President Kennedy tax cuts. There is zero intellectual honesty in either of these tax cut policies. There is no credibility to them. My father might have known that, but whenever I raised the questions, he behaved as most Republicans do - he shouted, berated, and belittled the querent. 10 years later, he apologized for the tax policy failures on his death bed. What is this vaunted conservatism of which you speak?
“I had asked him whether we were going to make it, basically. Whether the constitutional “guardrails” in our country would hold. Whether our democracy would soldier on. “That’s in our hands,” he said. It’s up to us.”
Welcome Jay, and thank you for your thoughtful analysis. That said, I have a question. While “nothing is written,” my fear is people are being misinformed through disinformation campaigns running rampant on social media and the use of nefarious algorithms.
Therefore, my question is, given the consolidation of the entire media sector which will be controlled by four or five corporations and billionaires by year’s end, including the sale of TikTok, how are we to fight this with any chance of success?
Additionally, If people are being denied the proper knowledge in order to make informed decisions, what are our chances of prevailing, when all of these billionaires and corporations who control the flow of information have pledged fealty to Dear Leader, and are using their platforms to promote Trump, and denigrate his rivals?
Just asking for a friend?….:)
But in the movie, after he says "nothing is written," Lawrence is forced to execute the man whose life he saved. So...it was kinda written after all...
Anyway, delighted you're back.
You ever gonna tell us why you left NR?
Trump…and his former editor forgetting his own magazines founding ethos to stand athwart history, I mean remaining stalwarts “AGAINST TRUMP”
God help U.S. At least we can still count on Jay and Gary to aim there pens at the clear and present danger that is the cult of Trumps personality ✌️be with you
Congratulations on getting Jay Nordlinger on board. I am happy to see him leaving NRO.
American conservatism has been left to rot for fifty years.
I believe that classical American conservatism has three pillars: limitation on Governmental authority over the individual; the political realism of Lord Acton; and a stubborn affinity towards American traditionalism, suggesting innovation and progress is all too often the rehashing of forgotten failure.
I can imagine the return to prominence of such sturdy paths of thought, of Buckley over Welch and the Birchers. But Buckley is long dead, and Kirk has replaced John Birch in the new Conservative pantheon.
Thank you. Those under 35 would be well advised to read this. Looking forward to Mr Kara Murza’s book.
My father, Norman Ture, was President Reagan's undersecretary of Treasury. His work was on tax reform and fiscal policy. He co-wrote the Reagan tax cuts. Twenty years earlier, he had written the President Kennedy tax cuts. There is zero intellectual honesty in either of these tax cut policies. There is no credibility to them. My father might have known that, but whenever I raised the questions, he behaved as most Republicans do - he shouted, berated, and belittled the querent. 10 years later, he apologized for the tax policy failures on his death bed. What is this vaunted conservatism of which you speak?