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Donald Trump Spanked By ‘National Review,’ Calling Him A ‘Menace’ With No Experience

By Shelley Hazen
Published on: 04:46 PST, Jan 22, 2016

An entire team of conservatives have joined forces in the National Review magazine to sound the alarm about GOP presidential candidate and billionaire Donald Trump, who they collectively dubbed a “menace.”

The “Against Trump” edition of the National Review included a damning cover against the candidate and, inside, mini-essays penned by 21 conservatives that put forth a pretty snarky but eloquent argument explaining why Trump is not qualified to be Commander in Chief, CBS News reported.

“He is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. 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… [He] 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.”

The anti-Trump essays attack the billionaire from every possible angle.

An opening editorial criticized the “wobbly” nature of his political opinions, pointing out that he used to stand behind abortion, gun control, a single-payer health care system, and taxes on the wealthy. The essays bashed his plan to charge Mexico for the construction of a wall (it’s “silly”) and call his idea to send Muslim immigrants back home simply impossible. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey that Trump would “imperil” the national security.

According to the Washington Post, the essays also slammed his past in business, his confusion when it comes to foreign affairs, and the fact that he has no political experience.

“Sure, Trump’s potential primary victory would provide Hillary Clinton with the easiest imaginable path to the White House,” wrote Glenn Beck. “But it’s far worse than that. If (he) wins the Republican nomination, there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government.”

Here are the essays’ more memorable quotes, according to the Huffington Post.

  • 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.”
  • Defeating ISIS: “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.”
  • Conservatism: “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.”
  • Liberalism: “He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accent

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Trump has bitten back at the National Review for its unfavorable critique of his political acumen, using a standard insult he reserves for all news media who paint a negative picture of him.

“National Review is a failing publication that has lost it’s [sic] way. It’s circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!… Very few people read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize, but not how to lead.”

And the National Review has already been officially punished for its essay collection, ABC News added. The Republican National Committee has “disinvited” the magazine from its co-hosting stint of the next GOP debate on CNN.

National Review publisher Jack Fowler wasn’t shocked in the least, saying “we expected this was coming. Small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald.”

The debate, which will be held in February, was originally supposed to be aired on NBC, but they were “disinvited,” too.

Read the full National Review editorial online here.

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