Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @RonBrownstein: Exactly the same percentage as the recent NYT/Siena poll found for Ds among Biden disapprovers. Warnock/Fetterman showin… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RonBrownstein: In new CNN/SRSS poll, on House ballot Dems winning 19% of voters who disapprove of Biden-exactly the same result as rece… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RonBrownstein: A statement on Trump's GOP? In new CNN/SRSS poll on House, Rs are winning 70% of voters who disapprove of Biden. By cont… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliaDavisNews: More genocidal rhetoric on Russian state TV: hosts and pundits repeatedly assert that Ukraine no longer exists, Ukraini… — PolitiTweet.org

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10. "Few people during the past thirty years have been so consistently impervious to the fashionable bunk of the moment. In a time of universal panic and lying he is a good person to make contact with. " END — PolitiTweet.org

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9. "So long as he and a few others like him are alive and out of jail, we know that the world is still sane in parts...He has an essentially decent intellect, a kind of intellectual chivalry which is far rarer than mere cleverness. — PolitiTweet.org

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8. "Underlying this is the idea that common sense always wins in the end. And yet the peculiar horror of the present moment is that we cannot be sure that this is so...Mr. Russell is one of the most readable of living writers, and it is very reassuring to know that he exists. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. "he merely utter what amounts to a pious hope that the present state of things will not endure. He is inclined to point to the past; all tyrannies have collapsed sooner or later, and 'there is no reason to suppose (Hitler) more permanent than his predecessors.' — PolitiTweet.org

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6. "...from unspeakable horrors. Also that democracy has very little meaning without approximate economic equality and an educational system tending to promote tolerance and tough-mindedness. But unfortunately he does not tell us how we are to set about getting these things; — PolitiTweet.org

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5. "...because like all liberals he is better at pointing out what is desirable than at explaining how to achieve it. He sees clearly enough that the essential problem of today is 'the taming of power' and that no system except democracy can be trusted to save us... — PolitiTweet.org

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4. "The most interesting part of Mr. Russell’s book is the earlier chapters in which he analyses the various types of power—priestly, oligarchical, dictatorial, and so forth. In dealing with the contemporary situation he is less satisfactory... — PolitiTweet.org

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3. "...at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion... — PolitiTweet.org

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2. From George Orwell's review of Bertrand Russell’s 'Power: A New Social Analysis,' January 1939. "If there are certain pages of Mr. Bertrand Russell’s book, Power, which seem rather empty, that is merely to say that we have now sunk to a depth... — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Short Orwell 🧵. By the way, how great is Orwell? Here are excerpts from the short book review, from January 1939, containing the famous "restatement of the obvious" line: https://t.co/e0RzVOWCgW — PolitiTweet.org

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When Orwell wrote in 1939 that "we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious" is our first duty, did he know he was offering solace to all of us who'd subsequently write pieces making perfectly obvious points? (Like mine today--https://t.co/xi4E67ZQK4.) https://t.co/i6tbDXXNly — PolitiTweet.org

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The Electoral Count Act could be critical, "especially with so many candidates running on a willingness to use their offices to reverse election losses. 'These particular reforms are essential,' J. Michael Luttig, a retired conservative judge, told me." https://t.co/39HGlf0ex6 — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democrats need to be a party that urgently defends democracy & the rule of law. In other words, they need to be something of an institutionalist party. But the Democrats also need to be a party that urgently advances major reforms in our institutions." https://t.co/xi4E67ZQK4 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW, from me: "The presidential nominee has to win. He or she has to govern. Who is that person? We won’t know until many individuals step up to the line...They have time to think about this...But not that much time. The flag drops on November 9, 2022." https://t.co/xi4E67ZQK4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SaintMystic: Lunch with my male GOP co-worker: GOP: Tea, I hate Beto. But I'm going to vote for him Me (had to ask): Wait what? GOP… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: Just had another focus group of Trump voters where ZERO wanted Trump to run again in 2024. Really a striking departure… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m aware there are strong arguments against even this kind of peaceful, orderly, and victimless civil disobedience. But I think it would be at least worth considering if laws like Louisiana’s are left in place without provisions for cases like this one. — PolitiTweet.org

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Should hospitals consider civil disobedience here? Authorize the doctor in such cases to follow the patient’s wishes and sound medical guidance, by removing a non viable fetus in the safest and most humane way possible. Have pro bono legal help if the state tries to prosecute. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @saletan: “People come out to vote when things are taken from them. That's an advantage conservatives normally have.” That's why, on ab… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lowkell: @jbouie But wait, it gets worse! https://t.co/5eIYaWtBnj — PolitiTweet.org

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Does Donald Trump agree with his former budget director in opposing same-sex marriage? — PolitiTweet.org

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“A lot of people love timeshares. The same way they love Carnival cruises or bro-country. Things that aren’t to my taste, but thank God everybody doesn’t have my taste. Cruise-ship comedians and bro-country producers need work, too.” https://t.co/BnfpkQ23jh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @saletan: There's a big difference between saying a story is false and saying it's unverified. People who dismissed the Ohio rape story… — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Trump voters in Red states are the only subgroup of Americans who think secession would be a good thing. One of the challenges we face in modern America is that people are extremely well insulated from the consequences of their beliefs.” https://t.co/0b5poSz5IC — PolitiTweet.org

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"The reality is that, for all the West’s culture-war problems, the defense of Ukraine is both the most genuinely liberal cause (in the classic sense of the word) and the most genuinely moral cause that exists in our public and political space right now." https://t.co/X7MeOz0z7v — PolitiTweet.org

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"Who or what is the Secret Service really protecting? The president and the vice president, as the highest constitutional officers? Donald Trump? Or itself?" https://t.co/IrmQ8a4Iv7 — PolitiTweet.org