Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Lots of "friends" texting and emailing me that you don't send in a "CV" when applying for a scoreboard operator job. A) That kind of smug elitism is what got us Trump. B) This is a job as GREEN MONSTER Scoreboard Operator. You need a CV. You need pee-reviewed articles. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

brb -- fixing up CV for job application -- Key item: Was there for 6th game of 1975 Series. Scraped knee on back of seat in front of me jumping up when Bernie Carbo hit two-out, two-strike, game-tying 3-run homer in 8th. Walked home after game because T had closed for evening. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Vance has searched for someone to blame for life’s unfairness. It is, I guess, the last, sad stop in Vance’s political fall from tough-minded diagnostic of social failure to Trump-like whiner always on the hunt for someone being unfair to him…” https://t.co/OfxrZidtpV — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

The glass 1/2-full (well, 1/4-full) point is this: 1/4 of Republicans don't have Trump in their top 3. So they're pretty Trump-reluctant. Some would still vote for him in the general. But could half of them be persuaded not to? Losing >10% of Rs likely dooms Trump in the general. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AGTheodoridis: 75% percent of Democrats blame Donald Trump for January 6, while Republicans have been somehow convinced that the Democr… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Brilliant @JVLast on our failures of imagination, discussing the first attack on the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993...and the follow-on attack of September 11, 2001. Everyone quickly moved on from 2/26/93. Except the terrorists. They learned from it. https://t.co/YngMvIDnM1 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Failing to call the insurrection what it was—an assault on the constitutional order itself—and hoping that it will just fade away as a memory implicitly legitimates what occurred, and does nothing to head off future mobs from pursuing the same course." https://t.co/S0YUiQsEe9 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Distrust but verify, and let's see if he's serious--but don't meanwhile hold up on moving ahead on other necessary and desirable electoral reforms. https://t.co/C4raJVTZtc — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @databyler: So this is something https://t.co/CfrhwNjmnL https://t.co/SidaYWfgm5 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Interesting. Pro-Trump Republican legislator introduces a bill to close New Hampshire's primaries, historically open to independents. Are the Trump forces trying to make any 2024 GOP challenges more difficult? Have they seen private Trump vs. Cheney polls?https://t.co/Zjypd4ChYN — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @DouglasKMurray: Objecting to people throwing around terms like "Rothschild physiognomy" does not constitute "going woke" you absolute f… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

BAUDE: "If I can mention one thing to make it a little scarier?...It's only so long that one party refuses to accept the legitimacy of the Constitutional system and the other doesn't...So, if this keeps going on much longer, it's going to get a lot worse." https://t.co/FM0EJYLz6l https://t.co/Eep81ijHYd — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Being unworried is what passes for savvy in this town." watch the whole thing... — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @Sartor1836: “How can I make the nonce phrase ‘mass formation psychosis’ into a profitable cottage industry like ‘critical race theory’… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @KT_So_It_Goes: each of these people works a sit-on-your-ass job, lives in a nice suburban home, chats with political power players, wan… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @UrbanAchievr: who could have predicted that national populism would have a Jew problem? — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @UrbanAchievr: A year ago today. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“Jan. 6 was an attempt…to overturn a free & fair election. In a well-functioning republic, its anniversary would engender a commitment across party lines to protecting & enhancing our system of self-rule. At the moment, we do not live in such a republic.” https://t.co/Gj503RfZzO — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Three weeks after January 6. https://t.co/hq2RtOz1xr — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

That was then. As Politico points out, none of them have spoken out since. 'One year after Jan. 6, the voices of those who broke with Trump over that day have mostly been muted, moved on, or, in certain instances, come to embrace Trump all over again.'” https://t.co/GgOne8Jn24 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

One more thought on this thought-provoking tweet. My sense is there were so many moments when reasonable people believed sympathizers and fellow travelers and rationalizers would at last come to their senses about the Soviet Union. Each time, a few did. Many didn't. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Of course, as Jay knows, Kronstadt failed. What happened was rewritten or suppressed by the Soviet Union. That's also true of the post-Jan. 6 moment of truth-telling by Republicans. It's gone, forgotten, memory-holed. And a new authorized GOP history of Jan. 6 has been written. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"We are in a battle for the future of American democracy...It is a conflict concerning voting, partisan competition, and election administration...January 6 should be a day not for commemoration but for mobilization in defense of democracy." https://t.co/OBFzZFglxt — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"The assault on American democracy on January 6, 2021 was an ad hoc gambit drawn up over several weeks. This assault in January of 2022 is being organized along many fronts with four years of lead time to the next presidential election." https://t.co/OBFzZFglxt — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

The first speech by a Republican after business resumed was by Elise Stefanik, urging rejection of the AZ electors. It's fitting it was she--with her unbounded ambition, utter cynicism, & shameless demagoguery--who later replaced Liz Cheney in leadership. https://t.co/G6nQk39VeI — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Meanwhile, the people of Kazahstan would like to have free and fair elections, the rule of law, and a chance to hold their officials accountable. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Jan. 6 now seems more like the beginning of something rather than the end...There were a few hours that day when I thought the Republican Party might go in a different direction...that it’d force them to call this out for what it was and what Trump is." https://t.co/G6nQk39VeI — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Recommended reading today is at The Bulwark, where Charlie Sykes has a nice piece on political exhaustion...The Orwellian aspects of Trumpism, combined with frustrations born of the pandemic, fuse to dishearten and disable public spirited people." https://t.co/Uu1djIX9L6 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"What’s most troubling is where this could all lead. The trends we cited above show that white Americans who subscribe to Christian nationalism are warming up to the attempted insurrection, but does this portend more political violence? We think it could." https://t.co/DMIrYLw2Hp — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Come for the story about Safwan Aziz and John Hildenbrand, stay for the judgment on our state government: “It shouldn’t have been a couple of welders from New York. The state of Virginia should have pulled its pants up, got out there and done more for the people of Virginia.” — PolitiTweet.org