Of the neglible effect NR’s “Against Trump” Special Issue is likely to have on Trump, The New Republic’s Jeet Heer makes an excellent analogy. (Tat tip: VDARE):
Rich Lowry confronts Trump
To the extent that NR did once have power to purge, that was in a very different media environment that exists now. NR’s power in 1960s was that it was one of the few national outlets for conservative movement. That’s not true anymore. The right-wing media landscape is much larger and much more fragmented, and some large outlets/voices are Trumpists. In the world of Breitbart & alt right twitter, NR is like the Pope issuing an encyclical to a throng of ultra-protestant sects.”
