Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Joined some Roosevelt U. faculty and students for a fun time and excellent meal at Lao Sze Chuan in Chicago’s Chinatown. My fortune cookie: "Focus on your long-term goal. Good things will happen." Whew. Reassured. Things may look dicey in the short term. But all will be well. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SykesCharlie: "Awake-up call that people should start taking really f*cking seriously the notion that a guy who incited a deadly mob on… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanchait: Liberty equals manliness, which equals complete submission to Donald Trump https://t.co/nllqPVVmih — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: “A majority of Americans (62%) say they will trust the results of the 2024 election even if the candidate they support… — PolitiTweet.org

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More men are playing video games than in my day because we didn’t have video games. We played pinball (which I suppose has its own sublimated masculinity issues!). — PolitiTweet.org

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You know who really would have disliked the national conservatism conference sponsored by the Edmund Burke Foundation? Edmund Burke. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The popularity of DeSantis with the Republican elite is a case study in a party that has given up on solving its kook problem and is instead determined to paper it over." https://t.co/n3o4hyZHN3 — PolitiTweet.org

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"DeSantis is the patron saint of a segment of the conservative Establishment that has made peace with Trump...DeSantis has followed their strategy of ignoring Trump’s lies and authoritarianism while cultivating his followers with attacks on their enemies." https://t.co/n3o4hyZHN3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Not good for Joe Biden or Democrats. "When asked how [the infrastructure and social spending] plans would affect people like you, Americans are split with 25% saying it would help, 32% it would hurt, and 43% saying have no effect or don’t know." https://t.co/auOK1AhWFX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pennbarker: I had forgotten about this ad! — PolitiTweet.org

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"Embracing DeSantis accepts and ratifies the permanent Trumpification of the GOP — the cultural grievance, crude demagoguery, anti-democratic contempt for constitutional norms, and the not-so-subtle embrace of identitarian politics..." -- @SykesCharlie https://t.co/nlQ66uHTPp — PolitiTweet.org

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To the conservative commentators going on--wishfully or disingenuously--about how GOP governors like Abbot and DeSantis are the future and there's NOTHING authoritarian about them: You guys good with the TX vigilante law? You fine with FL professors being denied academic freedom? — PolitiTweet.org

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Conservative elites speaking to the public: The Texas case is highly technical, it's not about Roe. The Florida professors are no big deal, they're state employees. Youngkin is an education reformer not a Trump enabler. Conservative elites among themselves: Power! We love it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Full-throated Trump endorsement of Youngkin. So: Would Youngkin oppose Trump's effort to be the GOP nominee? No. Would Youngkin support Trump in the general election?Yes. Would Youngkin oppose efforts by Trump to overturn the 2024 election results? There's no reason to think so. https://t.co/BWpojgOQ5W — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillKristol: I woke up in my hotel room groggy from a late flight, made a cup of coffee from one of those little machines (no more coff… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillKristol: Join @davidaxelrod and me on Nov. 1 at 4:30 p.m. CT at the Roosevelt University American Dream Reconsidered Conference. We… — PolitiTweet.org

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A reasonable concern of modern conservatism was the "administrative state," and its tendency to be unaccountable, often in a kind of passive-aggressive way. Yet from TX to FL, today's Republicans love using the power of the administrative state. https://t.co/rUyo62b4fi — PolitiTweet.org

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"When the justices consider whether the Texas Heartbeat Act actually affects people’s rights regardless of the lack of direct state enforcement, they will be grappling with aspects of the modern administrative state that are becoming ever more salient." https://t.co/rUyo62b4fi — PolitiTweet.org

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"This fake publication—and the hundreds of other such fakes out there, and the ads promoting them—are reminders of just how much money is mysteriously sloshing around on the hidden, fake-news, data-driven side of our politics." https://t.co/wth18JlIHM — PolitiTweet.org

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"If Republicans in good standing don’t do anything to change the current dynamic and continue their strategy of owning the libs while secretly praying their god king gets a move-on to his eternal reward, then we’re going to be repeating the nightmare..." https://t.co/fLuuJfOAeY — PolitiTweet.org

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"But most important, Republican politicians and commentators who claim they don’t want a wannabe authoritarian lunatic to become president again should probably do something to try to stop it." https://t.co/fLuuJfOAeY — PolitiTweet.org

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I woke up in my hotel room groggy from a late flight, made a cup of coffee from one of those little machines (no more coffee shop! no more room service!), go first as always to the Bulwark, and read...this! Aargh... Thanks, @Timodc. And there's no minibar. https://t.co/buZXKEUK24 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RonBrownstein: "The Capitol was under siege — and the president, glued to the television, did nothing. For 187 minutes, Trump resisted… — PolitiTweet.org

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Glenn Youngkin has repeatedly expressed admiration for Florida governor Ron DeSantis: “He’s pretty special." “I deeply respect him." Does he admire Florida’s new assault on academic freedom? Would Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia follow in Ron DeSantis’ authoritarian footsteps? — PolitiTweet.org

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“We don’t have the luxury of ‘moving on’ from the events of Jan. 6 to focus on ordinary issues as urged by so many Republicans, including Glenn Youngkin. Democracy is on the ballot in Virginia — and in every other state between now and 2024.” https://t.co/i9UgYByn4n — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Republicans’…fight against democracy has become a fight against scholarship. Faculty members, as individuals and members of their various disciplines, have no choice but to fight back—in the name not only of academic freedom!but of democracy itself.” https://t.co/Qohjk3L5Ws — PolitiTweet.org

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Too obvious probably to be worth saying, but conservatism properly understood and liberalism properly understood should be allies in defense of a free society. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m asked, Why are you, a conservative, not backing “conservative” candidates. I’m conservative in many ways. But a conservative movement that enables Trumpist demagoguery and authoritarianism is one I won’t be part of. So: Conservative, yes. Today’s conservative movement, no. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m asked, Why are you as a Republican not for Youngkin? I worked for and supported many Republicans. I’m mostly proud to have done so. But if being a good Republican today means supporting Trump or acquiescing in and enabling Trumpist authoritarianism, I say: No. Country first. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SarahLongwell25: Liz Cheney, Larry Hogan, Charlie Baker, Adam Kinzinger and anyone else who has told the truth about Trump are all peop… — PolitiTweet.org