Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

This seems like a pretty terrible miscarriage of justice. It doesn't seem clear Melissa Lucio's guilty of any crime. https://t.co/aE6OJyiaOx — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Rep. Reschenthaler represents PA-14. PA has about 13m people today compared with 11.8m in 1970--it's grown about 10% over 50 years. The population of TX & AZ--border states--has about tripled in those 50 years. They've also grown wealthier. But you go on dumping on border states. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not Casablanca, but pretty good. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

George Wallace won the 1972 Michigan Democratic primary with 51% of the vote; McGovern won 27% of the vote, Humphrey 16%. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EmmanuelMacron: À celles et ceux qui ont voté pour moi, non pour soutenir mes idées mais pour faire barrage à celles de l’extrême droit… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Meanwhile, I doff my baseball cap to our beret-wearing cousins across the ocean, and say, Vive la France!” https://t.co/BeJYprw64W — PolitiTweet.org

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“We could look across the ocean, feel some national pride, and resolve not to let the French—whose democratic revolution after all came after ours and had a less happy outcome than ours—outdo us in upholding freedom and democracy in the 21st century.” https://t.co/BeJYprNHtw — PolitiTweet.org

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While we’re appreciating the French, here’s the great Edith Piaf’s “Non Je Ne Regrette Rien.” (It’s true that Piaf seems not to have been entirely sound on the liberal democracy question, but…artists.) https://t.co/KwQSN0lWLF — PolitiTweet.org

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Yvonne says Merci. As do I. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Interesting and thought-provoking from @SamAdlerBell⁩. But: If there’s a “movement” the Democratic Party can look to today, in real existing America—won’t it look more like the progressives of a century ago than the labor movement of a half century ago? https://t.co/wcvUV8yg5K — PolitiTweet.org

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On DeSantis imitating Orban--and the widespread acquiescence in this, and even approbation of it, from much of mainstream conservatism. Orbanism is now to an astonishing degree the beating heart of real existing American conservatism. https://t.co/n1Uj1ObXi4 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Calling this 'populist' or seeing [it] as 'anti-business' seems to miss the point. This is understandable, because American political vocabulary is having a hard time keeping up, as the right moves to older—and more alien—models of political thuggery." https://t.co/YxdFUbV3EK — PolitiTweet.org

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"Despite Cooke’s dissent, others at National Review seem fine with the latest Orbanist flex. Rich Lowry stands athwart incipient authoritarianism and asks, 'Why Not?'” https://t.co/YxdFUbV3EK — PolitiTweet.org

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"There’s a lot more going on here than just 'populism.'...What Vance is fantasizing about is a campaign of post-constitutional retribution — a bonfire of vengeance." https://t.co/YxdFUbV3EK — PolitiTweet.org

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Teaching history matters: "The saboteurs drew inspiration from an episode in Belarusian history when Belarusians opposed to the Nazi occupation blew up railway lines and train stations to disrupt German supply lines. The Rail War is taught in schools..." https://t.co/tpH4E14rvO — PolitiTweet.org

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"A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces went into action to disable or disrupt the railway links connecting Russia to Ukraine through Belarus, wreaking havoc on Russian supply lines." https://t.co/tpH4E14rvO — PolitiTweet.org

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“Trump encouraged a crowd of thousands to march to the building: ‘You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength.’…The WH chief of operations had told Meadows of “intel reports there could potentially be violence on the 6th.’” https://t.co/9Zxi498UuP — PolitiTweet.org

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Some truth to this criticism. I'd plead in defense that when you're fighting to preserve or restore the norms, institutions, and guardrails of liberal democracy, you'll look "irredentist"--or, more accurately, conservative. As to a vision of the future? An invigorated liberalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jwharris: @BillKristol And additional, more recent data here via Rice University: https://t.co/bejqcV5RPh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jwharris: @BillKristol In fact, a report produced many years ago by a Republican comptroller proved your point on a net positive impact… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is a demagogue. DeSantis is an apparatchik. Each is dangerous in his own way. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Trump is demagogue. DeSantis is an apparatchik. Each dangerous in his own way. — PolitiTweet.org

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...and for you Doubting Thomases out there, here's a close reading of the scene and a compelling articulation of its greatness. https://t.co/SJ99KsdRzK — PolitiTweet.org

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No, today and everyday is NOT 1776. 1776 was a successful revolution. @RepMTG serves in the free and representative government for which 1776 (followed by 1787) laid the foundation. The New Right turns it’s back on the Founders’ achievement, as the Old Left (and Old Right) did. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tripgabriel: When GOP leaders won’t draw a red line at subversion of democracy, is there any behavior from a second Trump White House t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RonBrownstein: The extent to which the rise of Fox and allied media has placed much of the GOP base under a dome, impervious to inconve… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gtconway3d: People are getting carried away with this ridiculous "Secret Service was in on the coup" conspiracy theory. They were just… — PolitiTweet.org

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All honor to Catholic Charities and others helping these migrants. A separate thought: I’d bet a lot these individuals become net economic contributors to their new communities, and law-abiding ones too. Welcoming them is right. It’s also in our interest. https://t.co/9u1kb4xYmk — PolitiTweet.org

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I trust the U.S. government is (quietly) helping to get information (like this!) into Russia. Dictators have public support...until they don't. And I trust we're (quietly) offering incentives to his inner circle to remove him. Inner circles are intimidated...until they aren't. — PolitiTweet.org

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So it seems Putin didn't attend Easter services. Instead, pre-recorded footage of him in an empty church (from 2021?) was added to the actual service, and this was then broadcast as if real. This doesn't feel like a dictator who's confident in his security, or his overall rule. — PolitiTweet.org