Trump has at the National Review with both barrels.

“Let it die,” he says.

From Newsmax:

Former President Donald Trump took aim Friday at the National Review after the conservative magazine’s editorial board announced its opposition to his 2024 presidential run.

“They have absolutely nothing going, it is failing fast, and my only question is, who is paying for the losses — when it loses plenty of money and serves no purpose at all. People are tired of haters — let the National Review die peacefully!”

“Why does anyone read the National Review? They are so negative to Conservatives and me, and are seen as being led by lightweights that couldn’t shine the shoes of Bill Buckley,” the former president declared in a statement via his presidential campaign.

Tell us what you really think, Mr President.

Trump is right, though. NR, when William F. Buckley was alive, was a lively, even fun, journal to read, with sharp criticisms of liberals and liberalism. Since his death it has become enervated and lame, offering again and again the same stale rhetoric of Republican relics, who are in large part responsible for the mess we’re in now: “safe conservatives,” essentially going along with the Democrat socialist agenda, but perhaps compromising just a tad, pretty please?

NR’s “conservatism” is that of Bush 1 and 2 and wasn’t that a spectacular success? Trump’s blast, though unmannerly, as the sender of the link above and Bickerstaff both agree, nevertheless is spot on. Indeed, let it die and good riddance.

Thanks to GWR.