Does The Bulwark Mean the Neocons Are Staging A Comeback?
Hunter DeRensis
Media, United States
A new website that replaces the Weekly Standard will serve as the center of the Never Trump resistance.
The closing of the Weekly Standard in December represented an ideological changing of hands. Founded in 1995 by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the publication became a wheelhouse for neoconservatism, promoting reform at home and interventionism abroad, most famously in the case of the Iraq War.
With the rise of Donald Trump in 2015, the magazine experienced the sort of ideological battering it had previously meted out to its opponents. “All the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war and kill people even though he knows it’s not working, although he doesn’t know because he’s not smart enough,” shouted Trump at a 2016 campaign rally, describing Kristol.
Kristol’s opposition, however, has outlasted his magazine. The publication shuttered when its backer, Colorado billionaire Philip F. Anschutz, decided that the intellectual veneer wasn’t worth the financial loss. Some Trump supporters reacted with victorious glee over a fallen foe; others made clear that the fall of the Weekly Standard had more to do with the difficulties of running a print magazine than as a successful ideological battle.
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