Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

How long before Bannon and Gorka desert Trump for Kari Lake or MTG or Tucker Carlson? Lenin is looking old and weak, and the Stalinists are plotting... — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

@Timodc Hey, you worked and lived in D.C. Self-important Washingtonians feeling, let alone acknowledging, embarrassment? Surely you jest. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

OK, my political career hasn't been spotless. My first vote was for Nixon. Years later I (sort of) defended Palin. I'll pass over other adventures... But I'm so grateful I never voted for or defended this guy--so much more dangerous than Nixon, so much less serious than Palin. https://t.co/SUxYFZWPrw — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @Timodc: Epic @JVLast rant on Desantis' anti-vax BS. "The governing version of shit-posting" https://t.co/bAMxN6jgou — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"COVID still kills about 450 Americans per day. Disproportionately, these deaths are among people who are not fully vaccinated. Ron DeSantis doesn’t give a crap about that. He doesn’t care if his stunt convinces people not to get vaccinated." https://t.co/btl347yK48 — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @Timodc: Hosted todays @BulwarkOnline pod with the phenomenal @DKThomp as first-time guest. We covered crypto, vaccines, AI, housing,… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @AccountableGOP: .@AdamKinzinger: "The once great party of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan has turned its back on the ideals of liberty a… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

This discussion between @ThePlumLineGS and @ARossP has interesting observations and thought-provoking exchanges about the current political/intellectual moment--which, the more I experience it and reflect on it, seems to me a consequential one. https://t.co/2734LfGjIN — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"The biggest threat to Ukraine’s success was the Republican Party...Now Trumpism has been deflated and is on a downward slope. The United States and its NATO allies have to capitalize on the moment and help Ukraine win." https://t.co/bgae2VvuGY — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

RT @AccountableGOP: Come for the claim that Trump was a better president than Washington and Lincoln, stay for the "Trump digital trading c… — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"'The progress of human liberty,' Frederick Douglass said, 'shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.' Freedom depends upon risky effort made against larger forces...Ukrainians have reminded us of this." https://t.co/GZLV8iAKC7 — PolitiTweet.org

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"62% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they want their party to nominate someone other than Trump, while 59% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they’d like to see someone other than Biden at the top of their ticket." https://t.co/m8Qy7mslDc — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Or to put it in modern American terms: We need a revival of both FDR liberalism and Reagan conservatism--and a center that appreciates both. — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

If we can't update a kind of Burkean conservatism that will appeal to young people on the right, and if we can't do the same for a kind of Millian liberalism on the left--we really will come apart at the seams. — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans under-45 are generally more liberal than the electorate as a whole, so the gulf between young conservatives, who prefer Trump to DeSantis, and most of their peers, who are liberal with a decent chunk further left, would seem to be a sociological and cultural chasm. — PolitiTweet.org

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The college/non-college difference is striking. But age is even more: Trump and DeSantis are tied among 45 years and over, Trump's ahead by 30% among Republican and GOP-leaning independents under 45. The young are attracted to performative radicalism and flamboyant extremism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Last night's interesting (I thought!) conversation on the shape of our politics, today and over the next two years, with @RonBrownstein and @LarryMantle. https://t.co/Vqoe1Hsf8a — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Nice appreciation of @RonBrownstein by @perrybaconjr. Which reminds me: Ron's post-election conversation (https://t.co/Y7oKlQLj4E), where you can see Ron, so to speak, in action, is worth a watch or a listen. https://t.co/VD9ndUJLfY — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Like the great Enlightenment liberal philosophers, Hitchens took liberty to be the grounding political value: the liberty to speak and write openly, to be free of authoritarian domination, to escape the arbitrary constraints of tribe, faith, and nation." https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

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"Hitchens argued that there would always be 'powerful enemies' of the Enlightenment, and he decided that defeating those enemies and defending the open society was worthwhile...He recognized this 'necessitated constant argument about the idea of America.'” https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

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"When he broke from the International Socialists in the mid-1970s, he recalls in Hitch-22 his sudden realization that 'democracy and pluralism were good things in themselves, and ends in themselves at that, rather than means to another end.'” https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

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"His positions on Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arab Spring, and Islamism weren’t such substantial deviations—or deviations at all—from his consistent defense of liberalism." https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"In an essay about Dickens, Orwell described his subject as 'a man who is generously angry—in other words, a 19th-c. liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.'” https://t.co/z4GhJkGXkI — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"[The Democratic Party] is still regarded as extreme, particularly in its tolerance of extremist groups. 53% thought so in 2022. 53% thought the same about the GOP. But imagine how well Ds could do if they were viewed as much less extreme than Rs." https://t.co/JyTHfzFYsh — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"It turns out that the progressive base mobilization strategy has a fatal flaw...These voters would be more likely to turn out for a Democratic party associated with safe streets, a healthy economy and a sensible, non-divisive approach to social issues." https://t.co/JyTHfzonAJ — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"Key House Democrats signaled Wednesday they would accept the Senate’s version of an Electoral Count Act rewrite if it is attached to the coming omnibus. The legislation would update a 135-year-old election law Trump and his allies tried to exploit..." https://t.co/aCqp5fKz0w — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Joe Biden was right on Putin: "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power." — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"That’s not what grand juries do. They decide whether to charge specific people with specific crimes. DeSantis isn’t just politicizing public health; he’s also politicizing Florida’s criminal justice system...DeSantis is pushing a proverbial witch hunt." https://t.co/S1jFSoeE6Y — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"DeSantis cheered vaccines in July 2021: 'If you look at the people that are being admitted to hospitals, over 95 percent of them are either not fully vaccinated or not vaccinated at all. So these vaccines are saving lives. They are reducing mortality.'” https://t.co/0b4OMXf48I — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

"DeSantis could tell a compelling story about balancing individual liberty and public health...But he has decided to screw all that...DeSantis is sucking up to the anti-vax crowd and styling himself as a crusader against the 'biomedical security state.'" https://t.co/0b4OMXf48I — PolitiTweet.org