This week a conservative columnist writing for the Conservative National Review absolutely
bash the hell out of Donald Trump. Claiming that the former president is quote, ranting
like a deranged hobo in a dilapidated public park in an actually gets even worse than that.
But I wanna stress the fact before I read the rest of this, that this is a conservative
columnist in a very popular conservative publication, the National Review. And clearly Donald Trump
has lost that very important voice with conservative voters that's probably not gonna bode well
for him in 2024. But here is what conservative columnist Charles c w Cook continued, of course,
after saying he's ranting like a uh, uh, a again deranged hobo in a dilapidated public
park. Throughout his public career, Trump has resembled nothing so much as a drunken
talk radio caller from Queens and on truth social readers get the treat of watching him
at the zenith of his rhetorical powers.
One moment he's proposing that the solution to the Supreme Court leak is to arrest the
reporter, publisher, editor. You'll get your answer fast. Or if that fails, put whoever
in jail the next. He's describing the prosecution of his business associate Alan Weisselberg
as the greatest witch hunt of all time. He can do anything, anything that is except focus
on the world outside, where the problems that Donald Trump once used to propel himself into
the White House remain real and pressing whether or not he chooses to engage with them. So
not only is this a columnist, Mr. Cook here pointing out that Trump's ranting like a lunatic,
but he's also saying, you're also ranting about things that nobody cares about. Where's
your talk about the issues? Where's your solution to the problems? You know, when you ran in
2016, you pretended to have solutions. You came up with a couple ideas, or your advisors
did whoever, but you were pitching things.
They were terrible, but you were pitching them. But you don't even try that anymore.
Like you're just out there like he says, like a drunkard on a street corner, ranting and
raving. The kind of person who, by the way, if you're walking down your street, the street
with your family and you see this person on the street corner, you're gonna cross the
street and go to the other side to get away from them. Like all you would have to do to
test that little experiment. By the way, go out there, start reading Donald Trump's post
on truth social out loud on a corner, and watch how many people go outta their way to
avoid you because you sound like a nut job. That's what the writer here is, of course,
doing a very good job of pointing out. But again, I think there's more to this than just
the hilarious and truthful attacks.
To me, it goes back to Donald Trump losing the conservative media. We already know. He's
lost the ownership and the management at Fox News, they want nothing to do with him. Sure.
He still has plenty of hosts, the highest rated hosts on the network, willing to, uh,
you know, fawn over him all day. He's got that still the rest of the network, not so
much this week. He also lost Newsmax. That's no longer on DirecTV. That's gonna hurt him
last year. He loses one America off of DirecTV. They're only available online Now. All of
this hurts Donald Trump because those are his voices. He's lost the New York Post. He's
basically lost the Wall Street Journal. It will really any Rupert Murdoch owned media
outlet, but other conservative websites like the National Review are taking this same turn,
pointing out that, dude, you're crazy and we don't want anything to do with you. Go
away for good. He is not going to be treated the same way he was by pretty much all of
the media, not just conservative, but all of corporate media in 2016, relentless coverage
and the fawning praise from conservatives. He will not have that as his backbone in 2024.
And honestly, I don't see how he can possibly even hope to win an election without that
conservative media apparatus behind him. And he doesn't have it anymore. And I don't think
he can overcome that.