One of the things that has been most baffling to watch over the past two-plus years of the Trump administration is the unending hatred of the president by the Never-Trump coalition. A lot of people who were skeptical of Donald Trump’s conservative bona fides were eventually converted into true believers. President Trump’s stunning track record made them finally see the light.
But among the “intellectual thought leaders” of the right, such as the staff at National Review or the (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH) now-bankrupt Weekly Standard, their hatred of President Trump has been consistent ever since he trounced their boy, “Low Energy” Jeb! What gives? Well, now we know. Google pays them to write anti-Trump propaganda.
Google’s foreign-born CEO Sundar Pichai recently submitted written answers to questions from Congress that he was unable to answer on-the-spot during last year’s farcical testimony. Among those answers, Pichai admits that Google was a major corporate sponsor of a fancy National Review Institute dinner in 2018. The National Review Institute is the policy wing of the magazine National Review, which is widely considered the go-to source for all “conservative intellectual thought.”
It’s like a free market principle in action. If you give a whore money, you then expect the whore to do something in exchange for the cash. And Google has been getting its money’s worth from the Never-Trumpers at National Review. Other “conservative” media outlets that have taken cash from Google include the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute.
This is how you end up with nonsensical claims that President Trump is going to wreck the American economy by rewriting our unbalanced trade deals to protect American workers. It’s a historical fact that trade protectionism was the default position of conservatives on trade relations for many decades. This is undisputed and dates back to at least Teddy Roosevelt’s administration. From Roosevelt through Reagan, every Republican President sought to protect American industry and workers first, through fair trade deals.
Yet when President Trump wanted to bring the Republican Party back to its roots on this issue, National Review treated it like a three-headed cow had just walked into the room (and farted, thereby causing global warming).
Twisting their bowties in knots, National Review whined, “Tariffs? Oh, dear me! One doesn’t impose tariffs against China! That will lead to World War III and it will kill all of our jobs. Plus, iPhones will cost $50,000 if this doltish non-cosmopolitan ‘president’ follows through on his threats.”
And of course, the economy has come roaring back. We have record-high employment numbers, even among black and Hispanic Americans. What happened to those $50,000 iPhones?
But National Reviews intellectual harlotry for Google cash was not limited to simply pushing globalist policy. Google was also very self-interested as a company in doling out the money. Conservative Americans have been calling on Congress to break up “Big Tech” because of the outrageous censorship that these companies are imposing on our views. Countless people on the right have been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Google-owned YouTube and other websites. Even the big banks are getting in on the action now, with Chase Bank canceling the personal bank accounts of pro-Trump conservatives (like Joe Biggs of Infowars).
But do you know who is opposed to regulating or breaking up the big tech monopolies? Jonah Goldberg, the senior editor of National Review!
Goldberg wrote in an op-ed last year – after taking Google’s cash – that breaking up Google would be “an insanely stupid thing to do for the sake of stopping suppression of conservative views, not least because it wouldn’t stop the problem and because it would do great harm to all sorts of economic and constitutional principles.”
And iPhones will cost $50,000!
Google’s financing of the Never-Trump coalition also provides it with political cover. Sundar Pichai can now walk around claiming, “See, there’s no bias at Google! We donate generously to the noted conservative thought leaders at National Review, who are the true keepers of True Conservatism™ for all time! Fairness!”
If someone who purports to be a conservative is still bashing President Trump two years into America’s economic miracle, there are only two possible explanations. Either they were never conservatives to begin with, or they’ve sold their “principles” to the highest bidder.
