Bill Kristol

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Bill Kristol @BillKristol

7. Richard Nixon. Who of Trump's possible successors is most like Nixon--calculating, disciplined, willing to be demagogic but also able to reassure the establishment? Ron DeSantis. That's the argument for DeSantis as the successor to Trump--it's (mutatis mutandis!) like Nixon... — 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

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8. ...succeeding where McCarthy failed. But of course Trump succeeded. And this is Jonathan's key point: Trumpism is so much stronger than McCarthyism was that his heir will be Kari Lake, not DeSantis. Or does the GOP revert to a more "normal" (but still bad) Nixonian DeSantis? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2022