I haven’t read everything that’s been written about this, and I don’t know exactly who the “gutter right” includes. But it certainly wasn’t true of the original essay by Mr. Ahmari, which called Mr. French “nice,” “insistently polite,” with a “guileless public mien,” and someone who has been “admirably and passionately advocating for Christians” and has “done yeoman’s work in defense of Christians and other people of faith.”
By way of background, here’s NR’s David French’s reply to the original “Against David French-ism” essay written by Sohrab Ahmari: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/david-french-response-sohrab-ahmari/
And another reply from Friday: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-cruelty-is-the-point/
Also on Friday, here’s Mr. French tweeting that he has become “a hate object for the gutter right”: https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1137104673440182272
I haven’t read everything that’s been written about this, and I don’t know exactly who the “gutter right” includes. But it certainly wasn’t true of the original essay by Mr. Ahmari, which called Mr. French “nice,” “insistently polite,” with a “guileless public mien,” and someone who has been “admirably and passionately advocating for Christians” and has “done yeoman’s work in defense of Christians and other people of faith.”