I'm pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and Constitution.
And so today I'm a Democrat.
Bill Kristol, X
As a news junkie, I saw a lot of Bill Kristol on various news shows in the 90s and 2000s. He talked the talk and even co-founded a magazine - The Weekly Standard - to which I subscribed. He wasn't my favorite conservative talking head, but he was a sober and reliable voice for the conservative view. Then, Trump was elected. Like so many sober and reliable conservatives, he lost his mind. Suddenly, only the Democrats could save the country from destruction, the deep state was the last bastion to prevent America from becoming a fascist state.
Like George Will, Kristol has some irrational dislike of Trump. So many former conservative stalwarts have become Chicken Little with cries of 'fascism is coming!' but never noticing the fascist tactics on the left. Biden sent Steve Bannon to jail. Which of Biden's advisers has Trump jailed? Democrats piled on Trump with indictments in several states. How many indictments have been leveled against Biden? How was the border (law & order, don't you know) during the Biden Administration? There are 300,000 fewer government employees since Trump returned to the presidency; gee, that sounds a lot like limiting government, but you wouldn't know it to hear Kristol.
Trump has plenty of faults but he has delivered more items on the conservative wish list than any president since Reagan, but the conservative cognoscenti from the pre-Trump era hate him nonetheless. Either they have lost their minds or they were spouting principles they never really held. The two-party system is Kabuki Theater. I like neither possibility. Perhaps there is another.
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