Bill Kristol

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RT @RonFilipkowski: In Ron Desantis’s one-hour speech in Pittsburgh today at the Doug Mastriano rally, he mentioned: - Doug Mastriano - ha… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BulwarkOnline: "For some percentage of Republicans/conservatives, they are intent on pretending that the Republican party / conservatis… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WomenInTheBurbs: "Populism has a real problem with positive issues and positive visions because it's so consumed with being anti everyt… — PolitiTweet.org

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Bulwark weekend podcast! @SykesCharlie and @Timodc discuss Sad Mitch and Krazy Kari, and the also rans Ron DeSantis and Dan Crenshaw. https://t.co/myujSY2ehO — PolitiTweet.org

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...or let this idea float out there to keep the GOP in line, ensure the RNC prevents a real primary contest against him, etc... — PolitiTweet.org

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"Trump delivers remarks in support of...the entire Pennsylvania Trump Ticket." Not, delivers remarks in support of the Republican ticket. If Trump decides the GOP primary process will be a pain and there's a risk of losing--could he just run as an independent? The Trump Party? https://t.co/hCIsKt4XM9 — PolitiTweet.org

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"The Establishment is not worried about kooks being elected. It is worried about the kooks losing to Democrats." https://t.co/TMZbswNtJi — PolitiTweet.org

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"Having driven out the one member of their party who fought back against Donald Trump’s election lies, Republicans find themselves mystified that election liars are taking over...The party’s mainstream wing sees no connection between these two things." https://t.co/TMZbswvSkI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BulwarkOnline: "As recently as eighteen months ago it wouldn't have seemed like too big of an ask for a politician to be on the record… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Immigrants are eager to wait their turn in line. Give them a process, and they will do whatever is asked of them. But only Congress can create those lines—and, tragically, it has deferred action on that responsibility time after time." https://t.co/VEdVnwUO5J — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThisWeekABC: "I don't believe he should be Speaker of the House." Rep. Liz Cheney tells @jonkarl that Rep. Kevin McCarthy has been "c… — PolitiTweet.org

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"We must observe the caution John Stuart Mill has given, not 'to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or to trust him with power which enable him to subvert their institutions'...In politics, hero-worship is a sure road to degradation." https://t.co/b0d5NU2zXm — PolitiTweet.org

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"If we wish to maintain democracy not merely in form, but also in fact, what must we do? The first thing in my judgement we must do is to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving our social and economic objectives." https://t.co/5FWFNo6zJj — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: It’s amazing watching people be like, “Why is Liz Cheney so obsessed with the coup attempt.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Leave aside the silly claim that Hageman would do anything more than Cheney—or anything different for that matter—to bring down inflation. But yes, Cheney does think it’s more essential to fight Trump than Biden. Why does she think that? Because it’s true. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: And I made that case via @MarcACaputo who made the observation first on the forthcoming episode of The Focus Group pod. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Timodc: “A lot of people misunderstand what is happening in this moment and think the Republican Party might somehow go back to being t… — PolitiTweet.org

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Or, to put it differently: The Republican "mainstream" is now merely a tributary of the MAGA establishment. — PolitiTweet.org

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How pathetic is the GOP establishment (cont.)! Sununu: Bolduc a ‘Conspiracy Theorist Extremist.' Then: Would Sununu back Bolduc if he becomes the party’s nominee? “The Governor plans to support the Republican ticket in November." https://t.co/yrMIeJv7f2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillKristol: "My friend Tom Cole told me Trump got 69% in his district and Tom got 73%. He said, 'If I get in a fight with Donald Trump… — PolitiTweet.org

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9. Who knows? And these are just historically analogies, and shouldn't be taken too literally or seriously. But I thought they might stimulate debate and thought. Meanwhile, setting aside the speculation, and re-focusing on our urgent task: Never Trump! Never Trumpism! END — PolitiTweet.org

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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3. ...and had no involvement in conservative or GOP politics until she suddenly and opportunistically appeared as a demagogic leader of forces she found out there. Who does this remind you of? Some New York businessman who was pro-choice, invited the Clintons to his wedding, etc? — PolitiTweet.org

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2. OK, now that you've read JVL. I was struck by this not just because it's very smart and interesting, but because I'd had two adjacent (but not fully-formed) thoughts just yesterday. The first was this: Someone was pointing out that Kari Lake supported Barack Obama in 2008... — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Short 🧵on the post-Trump GOP. Begin by reading (if you haven't already) this very perceptive rumination by @JVLast on who could be Trump's heir, and why it might be Kari Lake or someone like her, not Ron DeSantis. It's the second item in JVL's post. https://t.co/4oJNzqmyup — PolitiTweet.org

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“Kari Lake gives you a frisson of danger similar to Trump. She’s more authentically crazy than DeSantis. She’s a better speaker and is better on TV than DeSantis…And I suspect that Trumpism’s heir will be more like her and less like DeSantis.” https://t.co/ouAXvlDEMx — PolitiTweet.org