National Review Disinvited from Co-Hosting Debate After Editorial Against Trump

By The Stream Published on January 22, 2016

After publishing a special issue editorial and symposium piece against Donald Trump last night, the conservative journal National Review has been disinvited by the Republican National Committee from co-hosting the GOP debate in February.

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In the editorial, National Review warns that Trump is “a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.”

The symposium piece includes contributions from 22 right-of-center pundits and writers — including the likes of Glenn Beck, Brent Bozell, Erik Erickson, Bill Kristol, Russell Moore, and Ed Meese — all making the case for why fellow conservatives should reject Trump.

Trump wasted no time in reacting to the issue on Twitter:

As pointed out by Politico, Trump’s tune towards the conservative opinion magazine was very different as recently as April 2015:

Later in the evening, National Review publisher Jack Fowler broke the news that National Review had been disinvited from co-hosting the upcoming GOP debate in Houston:

The special issue and subsequent decision come in the wake of a series of articles and commentary suggesting that the Republican “establishment” is coming to terms with a Trump nominee.

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