A handful of writers and editors who worked at The Weekly Standard, the now-defunct conservative magazine that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump until its sudden demise in December, have a new home.
Starting Monday, Bill Kristol, a co-founder of The Weekly Standard, and Charlie Sykes, the former talk radio host and conservative commentator, will beef up The Bulwark, a conservative website that has until now served as an aggregator for Kristol's non-profit group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute.
"The Bulwark was an aggregator," Sykes told CNN in a phone interview Friday. "We are going to turn it into a full-fledged opinion news website, with really the core digital staff of The Weekly Standard."
"I think the need for a rational, non-Trumpist forum was more urgent than ever," Sykes added. "And I do think that contrary to some of the conventional wisdom, there is a market for center-right commentary that pushes back against Trumpism."
https://www.kimt.com/content/national/503921802.htmlNow I know what Roy Edroso was satirizing this week:
We of The Bulshit are here to restore the good name of conservatism. Not for us the mindless, boosterish songs of praise for the President favored by the “conservative” magazines that fired us. In the debut issue of The Bulshit, we strike out with bold statements — no pale pastels for us! — in support of moderate-right stands:
Why Kamala Harris is not so bad actually. We admire a left-center politician who knows when to tack to the center-right which is really the center. When Harris was forced to back off her socialistic health care plan, where others saw weakness Liz Mair saw leadership. Also Harris took a tough law-and-order stance as a DA. But don’t think her unprincipled — she remains black and female. Can she be The One, or rather The Other One, to bring us together, at least until she’s elected and we start questioning her birth certificate?
Trump is a socialist and that’s why he’s bad. Yes, establishment conservatives used to say things like this all the time only to stop when Trump won, but we really mean it. True, Trump’s tax cut gave billionaires a huge gift — or, rather, a huge reward perfectly proportionate to their talents and contributions to society — and he’s doing a great job undermining Obamacare. But, Jonathan V. Last notices, while true conservatives like Paul Ryan tried to reform Social Security and Medicare into more free-market, low-benefit programs, Trump talks as if he wants to keep them intact. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t mean it — with poor examples like this, it’s no wonder the kids fell under the sway of AOC.
What makes Howard Schultz so sexy? Ruggedly handsome, impeccably coiffed (could there be a bigger contrast with Bernie “Bedhead” Sanders?), calling them like he sees them — presidency-flirt Howard Schultz is taking America by storm and don’t let the polls fool you — once he gets past the false impression created by the SJWs of the Twitter mob (and he’s got the money to do it!), both the center-right and the center-center-left (and maybe even the center left! They liked Obama) will go for the man Benjamin Parker respectfully calls Mr. Schultz, Sir.
https://edroso.substack.com/p/introducing-the-bulshit
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