National Review publishes anti-Donald Trump issue. Will that stop him?

Worried that some members of the Republican establishment are getting used to the idea that Donald Trump might win the party’s presidential nomination, the venerable National Review has just published an extraordinary anti-Trump screed.

The magazine – founded by legendary New York conservative William F. Buckley – follows its own tough Trump editorial with submissions from 22 right-leaning thought leaders on the subject of why the reality star/real estate mogul shouldn’t be entrusted with the reins of American power.

Why such concerted opposition? The magazine’s central problem with Mr. Trump seems to be not so much personal as ideological. NR’s editors appear concerned that The Donald’s free-flowing populism could change the very nature of the right end of the US political spectrum. Under President Trump, Mr. Buckley’s old ideas about limited and orderly government might end up in history’s dustbin.

“Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones,” concludes the NR editorial.