I've been away from the ranch for a few days, so I was unable to comment on the timely death of The Weekly Standard on Friday.
As a Christian, I derive no pleasure from the thought of people desperately seeking work during the season of Advent. I have myself experienced a layoff at exactly this time of year and it sucks.
Yet while the timing stinks, the deed was entirely necessary and proper. As I've repeatedly noted, the magazine served no useful purpose. It was a low-calorie version of Trump hate and the artificial sweetener simply couldn't cut it when compared to the real thing.
I've also been interested to see how the same people who continue to extol the virtues of "free trade" are suddenly angry with capitalism for allowing members of their protected class to finally take it in the shorts like the rest of us.
When tens of thousands of blue-collar workers lost their livelihoods and whole communities withered away, Conservatism, Inc. had zero sympathy for them. Indeed, the demise of an obscure magazine with perhaps a few dozen employees is getting far more ink than far larger layoffs.
What goes around, comes around, I guess.
Another lesson learned is that - as I've also pointed out repeatedly - the employees of the magazine worked for pay, not out of ideological conviction.
And now that their gig is going south, they have zero problem with whoring themselves out to leftists and/or corrupt Middle Eastern potentates.
Unfortunately, the more crooked cash these courtesans take, the less anyone will care what they have to say. Their entire gig was predicated on the notion that they were actually true believers. Without that, they're not even decent fifth-columnist shills.
Let's face it, the economic value of Quisling Never Trumpers is pretty close to zero.
See, the free market does work.
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