This Bill Kristol tweet is pretty surprising. Not used to seeing any truth from him.

[Hortensis]

46. Absolutely, but... Kristol, unlike conservatives merely by personality, knew that an intellectual

basis for a conservative ideology had finally been developed to justify the gut reactions of conservatives. After all, he grew up knowing many of the creators from the mid 1900s, and its most important organizing principle was based on the value of proven ways and traditions and the importance of protecting them.

So Kristol of course understood what was happening when extremely wealthy ultraconservatives, for whom the proven ways were interfering with their accumulation of wealth and power, used universities and the new social media to destroy this fragile new ideology while taking over the Republican apparatus, and by providing conservatives by personality a new anti-regulation, anti-taxation "ideology": Short form, Democrat! Sic!

I lost all respect for Kristol as he tried to maintain his position by also serving up the Kool-Aid of the power-grabbers, but this has to have been a very bitter period for him. And I really do like this tweet. Whatever Kool-Aid he drank himself hasn't pickled his conservatism-constrained brain completely.