Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

A great story from the I-95 fiasco that restores faith in America. "The men used the generator on their welding truck to boil pots of coffee. They started walking along the lines of nearby cars, offering their trapped neighbors water, caffeine and snacks." https://t.co/TvaESybOR7 — PolitiTweet.org

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55 years ago today, Ronald Reagan inaugurated as California governor: "We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by direction of the people....Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative." (h/t @JRubinBlogger) — PolitiTweet.org

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"President Biden should strongly consider issuing an amnesty for Dreamers now...If he applied conditions—essentially the same conditions in DACA—he’d have the support of the majority of Americans." https://t.co/tQAl8Wsg7K — PolitiTweet.org

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FYI, because this ad seems to have struck such a chord, @AccountableGOP has expanded tomorrow's buy across cable networks nationally. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Excellent piece by @monacharen. Trump's success: Shaping the sentiment of Republican voters. And corrupting the sentiment of conservative elites, into apologetics for Trump or at least rationalizations for not taking the threat seriously. No small things. https://t.co/3psTzE1r17 — PolitiTweet.org

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"But the most profound reason to fear a repeat...is that Trump has corrupted the minds of a substantial percentage of Republican party members. As Lincoln said, 'Public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed.'" https://t.co/3psTzE1r17 — PolitiTweet.org

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"The most threatening aspect of Jan. 6 was that...147 Republican members of Congress voted not to certify Joe Biden...The transformation of the GOP from a political party into an authoritarian personality cult became official that day." https://t.co/3psTzE1r17 — PolitiTweet.org

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"January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought. For a nanosecond, it seemed that it was." https://t.co/3psTzE1r17 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Republican politicians therefore rarely push back against the Big Lie, which in turn makes the base more extreme...And in this midst of this political psychodrama sits the ugliness of January 6th: violence in the service of a lie, now being lied about." https://t.co/VhmXsA4evL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillKristol: NEW. Remember what Republicans said a year ago? They told the truth about Donald Trump and January 6. They told the tru… — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW. Remember what Republicans said a year ago? They told the truth about Donald Trump and January 6. They told the truth then. Why won’t they now? This ad from @AccountableGOP will run on Fox on January 6. https://t.co/s7eBO2mz92 — PolitiTweet.org

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Hey, @LeaderMcConnell, @GovChristie, @GlennYoungkin, and other Respectable™️ Republicans: You guys still fine with supporting Trump if he’s the nominee in 2024? https://t.co/mzWCc01jdY — PolitiTweet.org

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As the rest of us commemorate this terrible day for American democracy, Trump will commemorate his dereliction of duty. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it's nice that Trump wants to commemorate his being silent and missing in action for 187 minutes last January 6, by going silent this January 6. — PolitiTweet.org

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The decent Republicans…are no longer Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

“To give a minority a negative upon the majority is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser...Hence, tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good.” — Federalist #22 — PolitiTweet.org

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The unbelievable dumbing down of the public discourse on religion (not by religion’s opponents but by those who claim to be its defenders) has been a feature both of Trumpism and the pandemic, and especially of the two together. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not so. It only takes a majority of voters in the districts of a majority of state legislators to make it politically tempting for the legislators to do this, against a backdrop of the Big Lie and claims of fraud (in the other party’s districts, of course). But Mitch knows this. — PolitiTweet.org

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For forever more to be known as Tim Kaine (D-I-95). — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

What’s the point of being a senator if your staff doesn’t hop to it when you’re in need? Can’t believe Tim Kaine’s staff hasn’t rented a helicopter to extract him and sub in an intern! The old school senators I met when I came to DC would be having a drink on Capitol Hill by now. — PolitiTweet.org

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I do not like them, no I can't. I do not like a new variant. I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like a new variant. I do not like it, no I can't... — PolitiTweet.org

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“Senate Republicans are cringing at Trump's plans to speak Jan. 6, openly fretting he's trying to pull their party into debating his false election claims.” “Cringing” and “fretting” is what the Respectable™️ wing of the Republican Party does these days. https://t.co/8Ue2wmMjiu — PolitiTweet.org

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“I don’t know if this is a comms problem. Or a policy problem. Or a state-of-the-world problem. But it is a problem. And if Biden’s team doesn’t fix it, they’re in a world of trouble.” https://t.co/IwcOQbuGoc — PolitiTweet.org

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“There is no ‘both sides’ here. One side is trying to execute public policy in ways which are wise or foolish…The other side is reveling in political violence. If voters can’t be convinced to stick with Door #1, what’s behind Door #2 won’t be nice.” https://t.co/IwcOQbuGoc — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Renew_Democracy: January 6 happened when years of anti-democratic lies boiled over. Many think it was a one time event, but those force… — PolitiTweet.org

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Charlie and I discussed the exhaustion problem on yesterday's podcast: https://t.co/OCZ7SKH5Mr — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Let’s face it, the central problem of our times may not be incipient fascism, as much as it is our collective political, and cultural exhaustion. (Of course they are not unrelated, but I’ll get to that later.)" -- @SykesCharlie https://t.co/nmvbNytFda — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BeschlossDC: New York Times of a year ago today: https://t.co/qp4pOVSmNT — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent @timkaine Twitter performance this morning from his car on I-95. Understated and charming. He's running. — PolitiTweet.org