The Honorable Path

 
Note: The Weekly Standard, a respected conservative voice founded in 1995 that opposed Trump and “combined high intellectual seriousness with the crass mentality of a political operative,” was summarily shut down by its pro-Trump owners in December.

“The Weekly Standard’s editors and writers refused to prostitute themselves to the Trumpists. In doing so, they stood as a continuing rebuke to those who jettisoned integrity for access and traded ideals for fame. Conservatives in the Trump era had a choice between sycophancy and honor; too few chose, as the Standard did, the honorable path.” 

—Jennifer Rubin, columnist, “Distinguished Person of the Week: Goodbye to the Weekly Standard,” The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2018.

 

  

• Editorial Comment: Hazardous duty in the Drumpfocene Era.


 

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