{"id":2001133,"date":"2023-08-15T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-by-oliver-anthony\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:36:07","slug":"supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-by-oliver-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-by-oliver-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative National Review slams Oliver Anthony&#8217;s anti-elite anthem."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-by-oliver-anthony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Anti-Elite Anthem by Oliver Anthony \u2062Sparks Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>A conservative does not wish to\u200b speak ill regarding either\u200b St. William F. Buckley of Sharon, Connecticut, or \u2063the monastery of right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-is-not-your-new-conservative-bff\/\" title=\"Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF\">-wing thought<\/a> he left behind, National Review.<\/p>\n<p>After all, without Buckley and\u2062 the publication he founded as a channel \u2062for his ideas, it\u2019s entirely possible that the conservative movement in the United \u2064States \u2014 to \u200csay nothing of Barry Goldwater\u2019s 1964 Republican presidential nomination or Ronald Reagan\u2019s two presidential landslides \u2014 would potentially never have happened. In addition to Buckley\u2019s own prose, the magazine has also brought numerous\u2063 conservative thought\u2064 leaders to a wider audience. (On the \u2062other\u2063 hand, it also\u2062 played a part in launching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/normally-reserved-brit-hume-curses-david-french-uncalled-attack-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David French\u2019s<\/a> \u200b career as a public intellectual, proving that no conservative institution \u2014 however influential \u2014 is perfect.)<\/p>\n<p>However, on occasion, conservatives are\u200d called upon to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/1955\/11\/our-mission-statement-william-f-buckley-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stand athwart<\/a> National Review\u2019s reflexive anti-populist\u2064 elitism and yell stop. The \u200darticle published by the magazine on Oliver Anthony\u2019s viral hit \u201cRich Men North of Richmond\u201d is one of those times.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who haven\u2019t heard Anthony\u2019s cri de c\u0153ur about the forgotten\u200b men of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyt-columnist-invents-insulting-flyover-man-represent-americas-heartland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flyover country<\/a> \u2014 and \u2063given the fact it\u2019s gone from social media to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rich-men-north-richmond-zooms-1-itunes-anthony-posts-video-reacting-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No. 1 song on iTunes\u2019<\/a> country music chart, I\u2019m going\u200d to guess that\u2019s not \u2062many of you \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-by-oliver-anthony\/\" title=\"Conservative National Review slams Oliver Anthony's anti-elite anthem.\">previously unknown singer\/songwriter laments<\/a> the troubles of Middle America \u200cand how the \u201cRich Men North of Richmond\u201d (i.e., the plutocrats in Washington) don\u2019t \u200bcare about any aspect of their\u200b lives aside from whether they\u2019re squeezing \u2063enough \u200dtax revenue\u200d out \u2064of them and whether they\u2019re toeing the\u2063 woke line.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/oliveranthony\/richmennorthofrichmond.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chorus<\/a> should give you some idea what Anthony\u200d means to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Livin\u2019 in the new \u2063world<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With an old soul<\/em><br \/>\n<em>These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-factory-worker-becomes-overnight-sensation-as-blue-collar-anthem-rich-men-north-of-richmond-blows-up\/\" title=\"Virginia factory worker becomes viral sensation with hit blue-collar anthem \"Rich Men North of Richmond.\"\">rich men north<\/a> of Richmond<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lord knows they all just wanna have total \u2062control<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wanna know\u2062 what you think, wanna know what you do<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And they don\u2019t think you know, but I know that you do<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018Cause your dollar ain\u2019t s*** and it\u2019s taxed to no end<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2018Cause of rich men north of Richmond<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>WARNING:\u200b The following video contains graphic\u2064 language that some viewers may\u2064 find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t even\u2063 remember\u2063 the \u2063last time a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-shoots-to-number-one-amid-backlash\/\" title=\"Jason Aldean's 'Try That In A Small Town' tops charts despite criticism.\">song hit<\/a> me like this<\/p>\n<p>Be a shame if this anthem went absolutely\u200c viral<\/p>\n<p>Oliver \u200bAnthony \u2013 Rich Men North of Richmond (FULL) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qxm98Op9KI\">pic.twitter.com\/Qxm98Op9KI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Poso\u2063  (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1689863238907727872?\">August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Suffice it to say, the usual suspects have come out condemning the song.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Are you a fan of Oliver Anthony\u2019s song?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you\u2064 to\u2064 The \u200dWestern Journal news updates free of charge. 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Apparently, there\u2019s absolutely nothing sketchy about\u2063 that to Rolling\u200c Stone \u2014 \u2062so long as most of \u200chis powerful friends were\u2063 liberal, \u200dthat is.<\/p>\n<p>However, along with the usual suspects were the unusual ones \u2014 including Mark Antonio Wright in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/oliver-anthonys-fuzzy-lament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a>,\u2063 whose thoroughly elitist take on Anthony\u2019s hit stopped just short of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/coal-miners-fire-back-biden-says-just-learn-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn to code<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright, to be fair, noted that \u201c[i]n a world full of Nashville pop-country sludge, Anthony\u2064 sings with an authentic passion, and many people were instantly\u2062 taken with\u200b his raw and \u200draspy voice.\u201d\u200c However, while \u200dhe said the singer\u2019s\u200c meteoric rise was \u201ca\u2064 great American story,\u201d he confessed he didn\u2019t \u201cunderstand\u200c the adulation on the right for this song\u2019s message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first thing he had a problem\u200d with was the song\u2019s first verse, in which Anthony sings \u200b\u201cI\u2019ve been sellin\u2019 my soul, workin\u2019 all day \/ Overtime\u2064 hours for bulls*** pay \u2064\/ So I can sit out here and waste \u2064my life away \/ Drag back \u200dhome and drown my troubles away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother in\u200d Christ, you\u200b live in the United States of America in 2023 \u2014 if you\u2019re \u200ca fit, able-bodied man, and you\u2019re working \u2018overtime hours for bulls*** pay,\u2019 you need to\u2064 find a new job,\u201d Wright wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of them \u200dout there \u2014 jobs that don\u2019t require a college degree, that offer good pay (especially in this tight labor market) and \u2064great\u200c benefits, especially if you\u2019re willing to \u2064get your hands dirty by doing\u2064 things like joining \u2063the Navy, turning wrenches, fixing pumps,\u200b laying pipe, or a hundred other jobs through which American men can still make a \u2064great \u200cliving. If you\u2019re the type of guy who\u2019s willing to show up on time, every time,\u2064 work hard while you\u2019re\u200b on the clock, and learn hard skills \u2014 there\u2019s a good-paying job out there for you. Go find \u2062it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting Anthony drew inspiration for the song from his \u200ctime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/story-behind-artist-viral-rich-men-north-richmond-will-move-deepest-parts-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as a third-shift\u200d factory worker<\/a>. Mark Antonio Wright,\u2062 meanwhile, is the executive editor at\u200b National Review, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma at \u200cNorman and an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine\u2063 Corps Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no disgrace \u200din either\u2062 career trajectory, but I have a fair \u200dguess regarding which\u200c one knows \u2063more\u200d about the opportunities for upward mobility \u2063afforded to blue-collar Middle Americans in 2023. Spoiler \u2064alert: It\u2019s not the guy implicitly telling Anthony to \u201clearn to plumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, as for the depths of despair Anthony describes in his song, Wright offers this piece of sage advice: \u201cAnd if you go home and spend \u2064all night drowning your troubles away \u2014 either on\u200c TikTok or by drinking too much \u2014 my friend, that\u2019s \u2062your fault, not Washington\u2019s. Not that Washington\u2064 is helping \u200dany \u2014 it\u2019s not. But when we waste our \u200clives, it\u2019s still our own fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright, apparently, cannot distinguish between blaming someone\u200c for <em>directly \u2062encouraging<\/em> an act and blaming someone for <em>creating the conditions<\/em> that \u2064encourage that act.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a California voter who approved of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-checking-160551360299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 47<\/a>, which (among other things) reclassified thefts of under $950 as misdemeanors, likely didn\u2019t cast their ballot with the perfervid hope that their local homeless population would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/security-guard-workers-stand-man-shoplifts-walgreens-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loot the local Walgreens<\/a> \u200d in the \u2064name of equity. However, it\u2019s totally reasonable to say \u2063those voters created a profoundly \u2062perverse\u2062 incentive for thieves to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Anthony isn\u2019t saying some Beltway creature came to his home in Virginia and poured a fifth of whiskey \u200cdown his gullet every night until he woke up \u2063with \u200bthe DT\u2019s. Rather, he\u2019s noting that when elites on both political wings encourage \u200dthe outsourcing of manufacturing jobs overseas or an \u200cinflux of illegal immigrants to do\u2063 manual work at home \u200cin the name of making goods cheaper \u2014\u200d then tell\u2063 those displaced to learn\u200b coding or take up wind turbine construction \u2014 despair sets in, and vice isn\u2019t far\u2064 behind.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t\u200d eliminate personal responsibility on the drinker\u2019s part, mind you, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-elites-tell-mayorkas-wonderful-job-40-illegals-paroled-dhs-vanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington elites<\/a> who created the conditions that \u200dled to certain entirely\u2064 predictable outcomes don\u2019t emerge with\u2064 clean hands, either.<\/p>\n<p>However, because Anthony didn\u2019t include a can-do message \u2063about lifting ourselves up by our\u2063 bootstraps and taking responsibility \u2064for our own \u2063lives, Wright can\u2019t see why conservatives could possibly identify with \u201cRich \u2063Men North of Richmond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, as citizens, as men, still hold \u200bit in \u200dour power to ignore the corrosive effects of \u200bour\u2063 politics and the popular \u2063culture and get on with living the good life: \u2064get a job, get married, raise your kids up right, get involved \u200cwith your church, read good books, teach\u200b your boys to hunt, be \u2062present in the lives \u2064of your family and friends, help your neighbors,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that art should employ our own personal ideas of relentlessly positive messaging to make \u200bits point \u200dis\u2062 a\u2062 deeply flawed one. Imagine a version\u2062 of \u201cCrime and Punishment\u201d where Raskolnikov decides\u2064 his shiftless nihilism is\u200b amoral and becomes a police\u200b officer, instead. Or \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit,\u201d rewritten as an ode to \u2062antidepressants and learning to get over youthful alienation. Or a version of \u201cFolsom Prison Blues\u201d in which Johnny Cash lets the guy in Reno live and they end up starting a soup kitchen together. None of them quite hit home, now, do they?<\/p>\n<p>As Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist,\u2062 noted, \u201c\u2018He should\u2019ve written a song about this instead of that,\u2019 is no different \u200cthan a food critic\u200b trashing a steak \u2062restaurant because he wanted\u2062 something vegan. It\u2019s\u2062 a temper tantrum, not legitimate criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Next time, \u2062National Review should consider \u2062putting gutter criticism like this \u200cwhere it belongs \u2014 in the garbage can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should\u2019ve\u200d written a song about this instead of that,\u201d is no different than a food critic trashing a steak restaurant because he wanted something vegan. It\u2019s a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGJEPJfWGn\">https:\/\/t.co\/DGJEPJfWGn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1691142031513366542?\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor, indeed, was he\u200b the only conservative who found the National Review piece to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/weird-stuff-cnn-commentator-takes-aim-elitist-extremism-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be elitist garbage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following tweet contains vulgar language some readers will find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t \u2063click\u200c on this shit, it\u2019s garbage clickbait.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimRunsHisMouth\/status\/1691162135911350272?\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You know you\u2019re the \u200dtype \u200cof person the song was about, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLakeWarRoom\/status\/1691210832653488128?\">August 14, \u200b2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou know \u200cyou\u2019re the\u2062 type of person the song was about, right?\u201d That\u2019s pretty much the perfect summation of everything that\u2019s wrong with Wright\u2019s attempted takedown of Anthony\u2019s hit.<\/p>\n<p>The conservatives who openly fret over former President \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-indicted-ga-11-criminal-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, his allies and his supporters \u2014 \u2062quite a few of whom have had a byline at National Review, \u200cit\u2019s worth\u2062 noting \u2014 don\u2019t get that the conservatives who identify\u2064 with Anthony\u2019s message see Wright and his ilk as \u2063part of a uniparty elite whose two establishment factions,\u200c Democrat and Republican, have superficial squabbles among themselves \u2062but save their genuine enmity for what\u2063 they see as the unwashed rabblement, who they think should just shut\u2064 up and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-kerry-workers-whose-jobs-killed-biden-can-go-make-solar-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">learn some different skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not that\u2019s a valid lens to view American society and Washington politics \u2063through is another matter entirely. That said, in\u2063 railing\u2063 against that mentality, Mark Antonio Wright has provided a \u200dsalient \u2014 if unintentional \u200b\u2014 argument in its favor. Nice work.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/supposedly-conservative-national-review-published-piece-bashing-anti-elite-anthem-oliver-anthony\/\">Supposedly Conservative National Review \u2062Published\u2063 Piece Bashing Anti-Elite Anthem \u2062by \u2063Oliver Anthony<\/a> appeared \u200dfirst on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative respects St. William F. Buckley and the National Review, as they played a crucial role in shaping the conservative movement in the US. 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