National Review is not exactly the epitome of conservative thinking, hasn't been in a long while.
As for the rest, I grow weary of the whole issue. Somebody will get elected; whoever does won't be able to avert TSHTF, may be able to mitigate the worst of it (or at least not make it worse, maybe), but, some say, will bear the brunt of the opprobrium simply for being in office when it does all fall down. And so on and so on.
Whatever's going to happen will happen; we'll slog through the best we can and eventually be done here and off to Greener Pastures.