The publication released the essay on Thursday night, and boy was it a doozy!
Here are some of the best quotes from the article:
On Trump's threat to the GOP
"Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones."
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On his often left-leaning stances:
"He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accents."
On his immigration plan:
"Trump piles on the absurdity by saying he would re-import many of the illegal immigrants once they had been deported, which makes his policy a poorly disguised amnesty (and a version of a similarly idiotic idea that appeared in one of Washington’s periodic “comprehensive” immigration reforms)."
On his proposals to defeat the so-called Islamic State:
"For someone who wants to project strength, he has an astonishing weakness for flattery, falling for Vladimir Putin after a few coquettish bats of the eyelashes from the Russian thug."
On his not-so-conservative ways:
"His obsession is with “winning,” regardless of the means — a spirit that is anathema to the ordered liberty that conservatives hold dear and that depends for its preservation on limits on government power."
On his lack of political experience:
"He is like a man with no credit history applying for a mortgage — or, in this case, applying to manage a $3.8 trillion budget and the most fearsome military on earth."
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On his questionable success as a businessman:
"Few of us will ever have the experience, as Trump did, of having Daddy-O bail out our struggling enterprise with an illegal loan in the form of casino chips."
Greatest closing line ever?:
"Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself."
Trump responded in typical Trump fashion... on Twitter, chastising his critics.
National Review is a failing publication that has lost it's way. It's circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!
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