It is drag queen story hour at NR

Most of my readers at one time or another subscribed to National Review or read it online.

Most of them regret that.

NR's Against Trump issue exposed it as the house organ for Fake Conservatism it had become. After decades of talking about stopping immigration, opposing abortion and rolling back taxes, NR faced a man who would actually do that. 

For decades, NR bragged about standing athwart history yelling stop.

Donald Trump came along to make history. NR panicked.

Calling something fake is easy. Proving it is difficult. But with a hat tip to Ace of Spades, a good example of NR's phoniness has emerged.

Charles C. W. Cooke wrote, "When, Exactly, Did Drag Queens in Schools Become a Thing?"

He whined, "How did we reach the point at which drag queens in schools became a topic that is routinely debated in domestic American politics? How did drag queens get into schools in the first place? Why does anyone think it’s acceptable — let alone crucial — to keep them there? Why has one of the two major political parties in America decided that this a hill to die on? How did this happen? In the last six months, I have heard more about drag queens in schools than I have heard about the solvency of Medicare. Why?"

Cooke and NR have no problem letting men dressed as women read to children. Either Cooke and the rest are blind to the problem of grooming or they are being as deceptive as everyone else on the left.

NR has long championed the transgender cause. 

On December 17, 2016, Josh Gelernter wrote, "A Conservative Defense of Transgender Rights. Conservatives should hesitate before empowering the government to look up people’s skirts."

Ah yes, don't empower the government to protect your daughters from being raped in the girl's bathroom by a boy in a skirt. 

He turned the situation into a whatabout, writing, "Unfortunately, the door is already open to child predators. So long as there are public bathrooms, bad people will use them (if for no other reason than evacuation). If child predators using your kids’ bathroom is your concern, you should be worrying about the male predators in the boys’ bathroom right now, not the male predators who might claim to be transgendered to get into the girls’ bathroom. (Or vice versa.)"

Who said parents were not worried?

They don't want to double the odds of molestation. 

On May 9, 2018, J. J. McCullough called for a unilateral cease-fire, writing, "Time for a Compromise on Transgenderism. Cautious conservatives should work to preserve a peaceful and free social order."

McCullough began, "I doubt that many Americans would disagree that the country’s conversation about gay rights is far more mature and considered than it was two decades ago."

Considering the Supreme Court had out of thin air created an anti-democratic right to gay marriage, perhaps mature and considered is the wrong way to go. But NR has been losing the cultural and political war for so long that it obviously likes losing.

Conservatives don't.

But McCullough and NR made the argument that we should treat transgenderism as inevitable just as gay marriage became. By compromise, NR meant capitulation.

On September 9, 2019, David French wrote, "Viewpoint Neutrality Protects Both Drag Queens and Millions of American Christians."

Compromise, comrade, and they will let you live.

You see, NR is about standing athwart and yelling stop. NR is not about actually stopping anything. NR writers and editors just like to yell.

But Trumpism is alive and well and kicking butt. In Florida, Ron DeSantis has a jolly good time by sticking it to liberals. He spanked Disney good and hard for trying to sabotage his anti-groomer law.

NR is unhappy.

On April 20, 2022, Cooke wrote, "Ron DeSantis’s Misguided Attack on Disney’s Legal Status.

"The governor already won. There is no need for the Republican Party of Florida to salt the earth."

Of course you must salt the earth. Look at what Democrats and RINOs are doing to Trump supporters who dared protest inside the Capitol -- a stunt that once got Amy Schumer and 300 other anti-Kavanaugh protesters arrested and charges dropped. Trump supporters have been imprisoned for 17 months now.

After telling DeSantis to treat his win as an L, Cooke now pretends two months later that grooming kids and drag queen story hour are a new phenomenon.

Why? Well, the men and women are drag queens themselves, each hoping to channel their inner Peggy Noonan. When it comes to conservative capitulation, few are as devoted as she. Her column a week ago was, "Democrats should stop their manipulations. Republicans should get serious on guns."

Give up, GOP, and grab those guns!

This week she declared, "Trump Voters Need a New Direction. He might have been the only Republican who could beat Hillary in 2016. But he’s a sure loser in the 2024 presidential election." 

Read my lips: No more Noonan.

Ace was blunt about the drag queen situation, writing, "I don't want to blame Cooke for this -- he didn't come up with the Blessing of Liberty formulation -- but is he really pretending this just became an issue now?

"No, it's been an issue for years -- and National Review has been on the other side of the issue.

"And if Cooke and National Review can't admit that easily-google-able fact, then no one should pay any mind to them."

That's the problem with DC and NYC lies these days. They are so blatant that they insult our intelligence.

Most of my readers once were fans of National Review because it was pretty good at hiding its liberalism. Drag queen story hour is just one of the many examples of its deceit. Trump's best service to the country was exposing these people for who they truly are.