Bill Kristol

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5. And it was true of Joe McCarthy--who was an unheralded senator all over the place ideologically, prior to his hitting on the issue of Communism in Feb. 1950. Trump's like McCarthy, but he became the GOP nominee and then president, so has done far more damage to the country. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2022

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4. Which leads to this thought: The opportunism, having the character of a con man and/or a showman, NOT being an ideologue or a true believer, is often a feature not a bug of being a successful populist demagogue. It's true of Trump. It's true of Kari Lake. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2022

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6. And this leads to my second thought, on the question of Trump's successor. McCarthy, only a senator, faded away pretty quickly, and though he had his loyal defenders and imitators, it was nothing like Trump. But who was a more-or-less respectable Joe McCarthy-adjacent figure? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2022