If you are conservative and felt the drift away from conservative values evidenced in the paleo-conservative press, well then you should read this piece by Emerald Robinson in its entirety. I excerpted the first paragraph below. The bad decisions by anti-Trump conservatives spanned the entire gamut of life experiences for these poor souls. There is one simple truth that came from all of this, and that is that Donald Trump’s great power was to cause otherwise normal people to self destruct.

How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google

Emerald Robinson:

“…There were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc. that would permanently discredit it with Republican voters…”