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Mark Steyn: ‘I generally make it a rule not to comment on publications for which I once wrote…’

January 23, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn notes that the gist of National Review‘s anti-Trump argument is that he isn’t Ronald Reagan. But:

Well, there are two references to Bush, both of them following the words “Reagan and”.

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The movement conservatives at National Review make a pretty nice living out of “ideas, ideology, philosophy, policy, and so forth”. The voters can’t afford that luxury: They live in a world where, in large part due to the incompetence of the national Republican Party post-Reagan, Democrat ideas are in the ascendant. And they feel that this is maybe the last chance to change that.

Go back to that line “When Reagan first ran for governor of California…” Gosh, those were the days, weren’t they? But Reagan couldn’t get elected Governor of California now, could he? Because the Golden State has been demographically transformed.

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