Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Gun rights activists tell us it is unreasonable to limit the access of demented teenagers to weapons of mass destruction; shouldn’t we arm bartenders and box-store greeters with Glocks?…What is more manly than turning the country into Sparta 2022?” https://t.co/trG5VSusEO — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Prompted by Eco, I’d say our task is this: Mussolini, who came to power in 1922, was a harbinger of things to come. We liberals (& social democrats & conservatives) need to defeat fascism in the 2020s so as not to repeat the history of the 1920s and 1930s. https://t.co/VPmDs3KAgy — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Making it more difficult to purchase guns—say, by adding more complete background checks, increasing the minimum age to 21, requiring waiting periods, or adopting ‘red flag laws’—would have inhibited the vast majority of the killers listed above.” https://t.co/V7pfr2DcBQ — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Trump may succeed in purging Cheney…He might complete the transformation of the GOP into a party that worships dictators, ignores Russian aggression, tramples the Constitution, scorns the rule of law, and substitutes presidential favoritism for markets.” https://t.co/c3Zc4kBBUz — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"The old establishment has been replaced by a new MAGA establishment. The question is whether on the other side of the aisle a vigorous, hard-headed, liberal establishment can be born. If this is not to be a time of monsters, it needs to be born quickly." https://t.co/GJ6qcJEU8n — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Trumpism is here to stay, for the foreseeable future. Which means that authoritarianism—with inflections, or at least overtones, of fascism—will be here for a while, too. With an infrastructure, with a popular base, and with elite enablers." https://t.co/GJ6qcJEU8n — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"One sees—in the donor and media ecosystems, in the new ideologies, in the odd combination of orthodoxies that an establishment can enforce and the flexibility it can grant itself—a new MAGA establishment. Do not count on it going away soon." https://t.co/GJ6qcJEU8n — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

NEW I try to begin to answer this question: "If one looks at the Republican party around the country, at both the grassroots and elite levels, there’s not really much question that the new MAGA establishment now rules the GOP roost. What does this mean?" https://t.co/GJ6qcJEU8n — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @NeilPHauer: Ukraine can win this war. For the sake of Europe and the world, Ukraine must win this war. It must be given - its people mu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Timodc: Barr makes the case in this interview that it doesn’t matter they failed in an utterly frivolous prosecution because they succe… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“'Pourvu que ça dure,' Napoleon’s mother Letitia cautioned her son when he boasted of his exploits—let’s hope that it lasts. Decadence is taking a break. Good for Ukraine, bad for Russia, and good for that soi-disant exhausted, self-absorbed West." https://t.co/j5fJNFT3OS — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"At least two and a half cheers for the 'dispirited' and 'declining' West in the Age of Putin. Who would have thunk? From America to Australia, from the Baltics to Japan, the battle against Russian imperialism is defying the doomsayers ..." https://t.co/j5fJNFT3OS — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess we should have expected the reaction of the authoritarian Right to the horrifying SBC report (as to the earlier Catholic Church revelations) to be anti-anti-sex-abuse. But @WSJopinion? Really? Lots of decent people at @WSJ must be appalled. https://t.co/G2ZfrI5XLl — PolitiTweet.org

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Strong statement of support for Ukraine by distinguished bipartisan group of national security professionals: “The United States should instead continue to exert leadership in the Western effort to provide Ukraine the weapons it needs…” https://t.co/4gCC4Mzpk9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: Just talked to a group of Trump voters in FL. Everyone in favor of over 21 laws to obtain a gun. Everyone in favor of… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Sussmann was also privy to an allegation…which had potentially alarming implications. The reason Sussmann was afraid Trump posed a security threat to the United States is that Trump posed a security threat to the United States.” https://t.co/L47k9YlthU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AccountableGOP: "The president's immediate action also deserves Congressional action...I think a fact-finding commission would be prude… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @AccountableGOP: MAGA Republicans are so anti-Democratic they’re anti-democratic. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RachelKleinfeld: Wow. @DrTedJ is the real deal (already known to those who read his book). Read this to remember a deeper way forward:… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EggerDC: Every word fire from @JVLast — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliaDavisNews: Russia is complaining that Ukraine doesn’t have the decency to get slaughtered without fighting back. https://t.co/bNLI… — PolitiTweet.org

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“I could understand if Travis made a mistake. Maybe he was having a bad day…But to publicly brag about it afterwards? To see this incident not as a regrettable mistake, but as a badge of honor? What does that say about the state of our society?” https://t.co/Aew6WVScR1 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Umberto Eco's essay on Ur-Fascism is famous. But if you haven't read it or haven't recently re-read it (I hadn't), may I recommend it? Eco captures very perceptively the protean yet persistent features of fascism, and why it's such a threat and temptation. https://t.co/VPmDs3KAgy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Timodc: Big ups to @AdamKinzinger and crew! Madison is sad. 😢 https://t.co/bJa3s7gfzT — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Who can blame sensible people in universities if they think that Carlson or J.D. Vance is a bigger threat to higher education than their dogmatic colleagues in gender studies or the office of diversity and inclusion?…I can’t. And I’m a conservative.” https://t.co/fIPsFPAUdH — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Those who hope to improve higher education, which is left-leaning, politicized and, at times, inhospitable to the free exchange of ideas, need sensible people to take up their cause. But for conservative outrage merchants, improvement isn’t the point.” https://t.co/fIPsFPAUdH — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“It’s not, I suspect, that Texans expect their government to provide absolute certainty that another mass shooting will not occur. Rather, Texans just want to see that this state is making its best efforts, regardless of political calculations.” https://t.co/ms7MAKiRYu — PolitiTweet.org

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“In short, a conservative writer who has described President Biden as a ‘demented pervert’ spoke his mind at UWS. A win for free speech on campus, right? Wrong, according to some conservatives, who, lacking good reasons to be angry, settled for bad ones.” https://t.co/fIPsFPAUdH — PolitiTweet.org

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“Once again, the point needs to be emphasized: wounds from AR-15s are dramatically different from other types of gun shots.” https://t.co/sTh7aFFVJz — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“The strategy is designed to create enough disputes to justify intervention by GOP-controlled state legislatures.” The Republican Party—not just Trump—is laying the groundwork to disrupt the casting and counting of votes in 2024, and steal the election. https://t.co/zeedR4b9fo — PolitiTweet.org