Timothy Birdnow

If there ever was a reason to toss National Review into the trash it is this despicable article by the once-good Andrew McCarthy.

I'm sorry if it's behind a paywall. You may not be able to see it. But the title speaks for itself.

Aid and Comfort to the enemy is treason, and the punishment for treason is death. McCarthy is calling for Donald Trump to be executed.

McCarthy was once Rush Limbaugh's friend. Rush is no doubt rolling over in his grave.

In fact NRO has gone completely mad and is no longer in any way a mainstream Conservative publication. Hatred of all things Trump has driven them to the brink of insanity (actually over the brink) and in their madness they are now calling the President a traitor. It's astonishing.

McCathy used to be sensible but apparently MAGA hatred has rotted their collective brains. They are now basically libertarian.

The same holds true for the American Spectator, which used to be a great magazine but has turned into NeverTrumpers and it's quality has greatly declined.

I got being NeverTrump in the early days. I thought him a tool of the Ruling Class, frankly, and was pretty bitterly opposed to him when he ran against my pick, Ted Cruz. But time has made me far less enthusiastic about Cruz and a stout Trump supporter, and that is because he has delivered, or really tried to deliver, on what he promised. He is not remaking America just restoring her. His policies are pretty much the same as Bill Clinton's back in the Nineties (sans Hillary), which makes Trump moderately liberal, but we moved so far Leftward that Clinton now looks more like Ronald Reagan. Trump was and is the best chance we have to restore America but the idiots at NRO and TAS are stuck on stupid, demanding some sort of purity from the man that nobody is going to be able to provide.

A lot of it stems from the tariffs and from securing the borders. NRO has always been a fan of absolute trade (it's not free trade) and lukewarm to border enforcement because the big money classes wanted the borders open. TAS used to be better but they seem to have become infected with TDS too.

Calling Trump a traitor is a bridge too far and I urge everyone to boycott National Review until they issue an apology. Oh, and they need to fire Andrew McCarthy.

I would like to point out to that jackass McCarthy that we are NOT AT WAR with Russia and have, in fact, been dealing with them all along. There is no enemy here. If Congress were to declare war then there would be an enemy. But not now.

Trump is hardly a traitor if he agrees to a limited trade deal with Russia. Calling him one is vile.

Certainly McCarthy calling Trump a traitor gives aid and comfort to America's political enemies. Who is the traitor Andy?

When George Washington went to visit his friend Benedict Arnold at West Point Arnold plotted to turn him over to the British. Pure luck or Divine Providence saved Washington from a hanging and saved the Revolution, but Arnold certainly tried. That is quite similar to what McCarthy has done here. He is trying to turn Trump over to the evil Leftists who so hate him. BTW doesn't he see that the Democrats and all leftists hate Trump? Why does McCarthy think that is the case? 

Arnold barely escaped a hanging of his own, and fled to the British who never trusted a traitor like him. He died penniless in London. Maybe McCarthy can quit writing for NR and instead go to the New York Times. I'm sure they'd take him - but they would never trust him. 

National Review owes everyone an apology. McCarthy needs to be in search of a job. Maybe he can work in a free law clinic? He should be a greeter at Walmart.

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