January 21, 2016
The cover of a special edition of the National Review says it all: "Against Trump."Glenn Beck decided to take the fear mongering route, saying if Trump becomes the Republican nominee, "there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government. This is a crisis for conservatism." Talk show host Michael Medved also played on the fears of some conservatives that Trump is becoming the poster boy for the movement. "Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right," he wrote.
Novelist Mark Helprin painted Trump as someone ill-prepared for the presidency, writing: "He doesn't know the Constitution, history, law, political philosophy, nuclear strategy, diplomacy, defense, economics beyond real estate, or even, despite his low-level mafioso comportment, how ordinary people live." Others decided to get personal, with David Boaz of the Cato Institute saying Trump puts his "crazy" out "front and center," and is "effectively vowing to be an American Mussolini," while Mona Charen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center called him "pitifully insecure."
As for Trump, he took his own version of the high road, merely calling the National Review a "dying paper" that "people don't even think about.
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