Trump, National Review, and the concern over Trump's appeal to many voters

Pat Condell on Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and leftist war on free speech they find offensive

Hat tip to John Paul Curnutt; Madras, Oregon

The Voters’ Trump Love Affair Explained in Terms Even Beltway Pundits Can Understand . . .  Media, listen and listen real good:

tapping into anger against the Establishment and over immigration and is a plain-spoken breath of fresh air. 

sounding a nationalistic note in an age where it is not the “elite” norm.

not campaigning as conservative but a populist, which, almost by definition, tends to make one popular in an era of mass discontent.

a crusader against hated political correctness, which has stifled tongues and killed careers nationwide. And in being the first prominent person to defeat the thought police (at least for now) — and by not cowering and apologizing to them — he has become a hero.

 What Democrats know (and National Review forgot)  . . . "N.R.’s demonizing Trump is worse than foolish.  It’s political malpractice of the worst sort: a suicidal rejection of a great opportunity to expand the GOP presidential vote."  
Do not take this as an endorsement by this site. But if Trump -or any other Republican- is our candidate, I will support him.  Vote Republican, people, if only to cancel a Democrat vote. TD

Donald Rumsfeld: Donald Trump has 'touched a nerve in our country'

National Review's Jihad Against Trump   

. . . "It would be an American epic -- the quintessential business pragmatist against the most extreme ideologue to have run for national office in years ... in a nutshell, capitalism versus socialism.  Capitalism is ragged and wild and wooly, like Donald Trump. It changes its mind on a dime. Ideology is secondary.  Socialism is a rigid utopian theory that leads to bankruptcy (at best) or mass-murdering Maoist totalitarianism.  Ideology is primary."

National Review's latest on Trump:

Translating ‘Make America Great Again’ into English
" . . .that the candidacy of Donald Trump is something that could not happen in a nation that could read."
Give Trump’s Jacksonian Voters the Respect They Deserve, but Reject the Donald
. . . "The Trump voter is moderate, disaffected, with patriotic instincts. He feels disconnected from the GOP and other broken public institutions, left behind by a national political elite that no longer believes he matters." . . .
William Kristol: Trumpism Is Just Two-Bit Caesarism  
". . .  Leo Strauss wrote that “a conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.” Isn’t Donald Trump the very epitome of vulgarity?"
Where Is the Evidence for Donald Trump’s Conservatism?

Much more at NRO.