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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Kristol: "Perhaps liberal democracy and a free society remain worth defending."
I think Bill said this with tongue in cheek and agrees a liberal democracy is worth defending.
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Bill Kristol
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3h3 hours ago
Perhaps we're not living in the midst of American carnage. Perhaps the civic fabric hasn't unraveled. Perhaps late capitalism isn't in crisis. Perhaps liberal democracy and a free society remain worth defending.
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Bill Kristol: "Perhaps liberal democracy and a free society remain worth defending." (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2019
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tanyev
(42,610 posts)1. No thanks to you, Bill.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)2. While we need these
"Anti-Trump" Repugs to be a part of driving IQ45 out, it should never be forgotten that Kristol and his ilk are responsible for the rise of party and policies that got us to where we are at the moment.
NEVER FORGET AND GET OUT THE VOTE!!!
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)3. I'm inclined to mock Krystal but he's having a White People moment
Hes just now realizing that People of color love their city as much as Irish, Jews and Italians. Whod have thunk.
Girard442
(6,084 posts)4. I think he actually might be having a brief moment of insight...
...that in today's America you're either an Epstein or being screwed by an Epstein.
It won't last.
comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)5. Too bad Kristol didn't hold that view before Trump became president.
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)6. Perhaps?
Since 1935 he and his fellow republicans has literally sought the unapologetic TOTAL
destruction of SOCIAL SECURITY.
To now suggest that "PERHAPS liberal democracy and a free society remain worth
defending" while he and 99% of his fellow republicans have done the complete
opposite of defend and support a LIBERAL democracy is more than simply appalling.
It is a clear sign that the end of our country is near.
Good "christians" like him will continue unabated, to persecute Immigrants, persons
of color, women, non-christians, the poor and the LGBT until only RICH, WHITE
CHRISTIANS replace our FREEDOM with freedom under their GOD.
Maybe if Bill Kristol had demonstrated his new-found conviction by denounce his republican
party for what is truly has become, I might have believed him.