When you kick up an editorial ruckus, you don’t know what to expect, but you do know — to expect something. Approval from unexpected places, anger from unlikely suspects. Well, all that has happened to National Review, fast and furious and copious.
I have spent much of the weekend receiving and responding to messages from folks telling me they are signing up for subscriptions, renewing their subscriptions, and sending gift subscriptions as a show of real support — real gratitude and admiration for our “Against Trump” editorial and symposium, and for how much it meant that National Review was forcefully defending conservatism.
Similarly, late Thursday night, after we published our editorial, a handful of donations started to arrive online. More came in, quickly, Friday morning, and the flow has continued through the weekend. Nearly a thousand donations, of all shapes and sizes, unsolicited, have arrived.
We are amazed. But maybe we shouldn’t be — we know we have many friends. Many have e-mailed to offer their encouragement and state their pride at being part of NR, as indeed they are. We are thrilled to find ourselves standing alongside them as we defend our principles.
Subscribers, donors, well-wishers — thank you so very much from all of us here.
Readers Support 'Against Trump'