I have always struggled with the the amount of attention and seriousness David French gets treated with. Since I first read him at National Review, I thought his writing and reasoning were shallow and that he has delusions as to his own importance. Without a subscription to the Dispatch, I can only see a brief sample of his criticism o…
I have always struggled with the the amount of attention and seriousness David French gets treated with. Since I first read him at National Review, I thought his writing and reasoning were shallow and that he has delusions as to his own importance. Without a subscription to the Dispatch, I can only see a brief sample of his criticism of your work.
French claims he has received more intense criticism for opposing Trump than he did from the left prior to that. It appears he genuinely doesn't understand differences between the two. Prior to his consideration of a vanity Presidential campaign in 2016, French's name recognition on the left would have been very low. Much of the criticism he got for his anti-Trump stuff at National Review was coming from NR readers and subscribers. I was commenting there regularly at the time, some were fans of his who felt he had gone off the rails or betrayed them. This is going to come at a writer more intensely and in a much higher volume than people who are loyal to the other side. Much of it was mockery and shock that he considered himself a viable Presidential candidate. He and Moore both have consistently taken criticism from the left, particularly from non Christians much more seriously and respectfully than from their right. I hope we get to a point where they are simply dismissed out of hand as relics of a past era, like what has happened to George Will and few other political pundits.
I have always struggled with the the amount of attention and seriousness David French gets treated with. Since I first read him at National Review, I thought his writing and reasoning were shallow and that he has delusions as to his own importance. Without a subscription to the Dispatch, I can only see a brief sample of his criticism of your work.
French claims he has received more intense criticism for opposing Trump than he did from the left prior to that. It appears he genuinely doesn't understand differences between the two. Prior to his consideration of a vanity Presidential campaign in 2016, French's name recognition on the left would have been very low. Much of the criticism he got for his anti-Trump stuff at National Review was coming from NR readers and subscribers. I was commenting there regularly at the time, some were fans of his who felt he had gone off the rails or betrayed them. This is going to come at a writer more intensely and in a much higher volume than people who are loyal to the other side. Much of it was mockery and shock that he considered himself a viable Presidential candidate. He and Moore both have consistently taken criticism from the left, particularly from non Christians much more seriously and respectfully than from their right. I hope we get to a point where they are simply dismissed out of hand as relics of a past era, like what has happened to George Will and few other political pundits.