Kristol Attack on ‘Trumpism’ is Ultimately Self-Defeating for His Useful Idiot Followers

“It’s striking how much Trumpists hate what’s made the United States great: immigration, trade, medical and scientific research, the rule of law, an enlightened patriotism, a willingness and ability to correct past injustices,” Bill Kristol posted on X.com Sunday. “At the end of the day, Trumpism is Third Worldism.”

Kristol, of course, is portrayed by Democrats and their DSM amplifiers (but I repeat myself) as  a “conservative,” and that’s what they’re counting on their followers and the uninformed (again, redundant) to believe. He started out feeding at the Republican trough, but showed his true colors once it looked like the party might make some serious moves toward actually applying some of the principles it espoused to attract votes.

“I came to D.C. to work in the Reagan Administration because (to oversimplify) it was pro-Constitution, pro-U.S. global leadership, pro-military, pro-Israel, pro-democratic capitalism, and pro-American dream,” he asserted in 2023.  “And that’s why I now support the Biden Administration and Democrats.”

When Biden was forced out by the desperate adults in the party, he came out for Kamala Harris (as a “conservative”!) because she “is pro-Israel and would be a more consistent and reliable hand in foreign policy than Trump.”

That’s quite the “enlightened patriotism,” although how it’s “pro-Constitution” remains unexplained.

We  can go back before that, to 2020, when Kristol and his “Defending Democracy Together” were working in tandem with other Vichycon groups like the Lincoln Project to act as “Republicans for Biden.”  And we can go back before that and look at some of Kristol’s other “conservative” positions.

“Bill Kristol Says ‘Lazy’ White Working Class Should Be Replaced By ‘New Americans’,” Daily Caller reported in 2017. He wants amnesty for illegal aliens along with a “pathway to citizenship,” and ending the country-caps in the U.S. legal immigration system.

What’s that got to do with gun owners’ “single issue”?

First, we know how Democrats are counting on that “pathway” to achieve supermajorities in state and federal legislatures that will then be able to pass whatever anti-gun edicts they want while confirming judges who will uphold those edicts (and reverse gains made to date). Now all we need to do is convince “gun rights group leaders” unjustifiably enamored of “Gun Culture 2.0” gun owners who have theirs and still vote Democrat.

Second, here’s what “conservative” Bill Kristol thinks of the right to keep and bear arms, or at least used to say he did, from 2012:

“Bill Kristol: Democrats Being ‘Foolish’ Not Pushing Tougher Gun Laws… People have a right to handguns and hunting rifles,” he said. “I don’t think they have a right to semi-automatic, quasi-machine guns that can shoot hundred bullets at a time. And I actually think the Democrats are being foolish as they are being cowardly. I think there is more support for some moderate forms of gun control.”

He’s hardly done.

“I used to be a Second Amendment guy. I was for concealed carry. I bought the ‘good guy with a gun’ BS. I know responsible gun owners. But eventually, reality dismantles the talking points,” Kristol quoted, linking to an idiotic “After Uvalde” screed on the fraudulently “conservative” The Bulwark that attributed school shootings to the fabricated contention that “no other developed country loves their little hand penises so much that they prioritize target practice over kids’ lives.”

Without getting to deeply into the Kristol post that kicked this article off, I’m the last guy in the world to blindly defend Donald Trump. My basic recommendation to gun owners:

By all means, praise and defend him when he does right. Just don’t be afraid to point out when he does wrong, especially because see-no-evil gun owners might get mad at you.

That said, every single assertion Kristol made merits a counterpoint, because it’s not just the president he’s attacking, it’s the 77+ million Americans who voted for him. And as we’ve seen,  Trump is an avatar for them, including myself. Wish harm on  him, you’re wishing it on me.

What made the United States great was a Constitution limiting government powers, one with checks and balances that included (supposedly) untouchable rights.

As for immigration, as the Supreme Court confirmed in 1892:

It is an accepted maxim of international law that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions or to admit them only in such cases and upon such conditions as it may see fit to prescribe.

Shall we talk trade? The Founders were fine with tariffs. It was the income tax they didn’t allow.

“Medical and scientific research”? If it were up to the Democrats, businesses would still be closed, and masks and clot shots would be mandatory. Maybe he’s referring to the “climate change” fraud that says we need to eat bugs and drive electric cars, at least the ones we don’t torch in political meltdowns (and who besides Elon Musk and his team has landed a rocket in a gantry?), And while there’s a lot I diverge from RFK Jr. on, the guy’s book is a must read.

“Rule of law”? Does Kristol mean encouraging assassinations and domestic terrorism against the president and his allies? Or Democrat apparatchik judges, from what the Constitution defines as “inferior courts,” imposing Cloward-Piven subversion on the rest of the Republic?

“Enlightened patriotism”? Yeah, replacing American workers and making sure what the Founders deemed “necessary to the security of a free State” is disarmed along with “Israel first” (and see what the late, great Aaron Zelman said about Jews like Kristol) sound like great places to start.

As for “a willingness to correct past injustices,” the J6 political prisoners are out, the FBI’s role is being investigated,  and we’re sure to hear more on the fake “Russian collusion” accusations and other election  “irregularities,” so stay tuned. Democrats in fear of being exposed aren’t heating up the low-hanging fruit-inciting rhetoric for nothing.

“At the end of the day, Trumpism is Third Worldism”? Why, because the globalists he serves, the ones who absurdly charge that populism threatens “democracy,” are seeing their New World Order being challenged by citizens who have suffered from their mass “migration”/perpetual war treason?

At the end of the day, we’re dealing with a loathsome little tool, a living testament to the dangers of Kristol meth. While anyone dumb enough to believe in and follow his Democrat operative noisemaking can certainly be described by the old Soviet pejorative “useful idiot,” the term “Judas goat” seems more appropriate for him.

The hard truth: No Democrat will vote for such “Republicans” as ally themselves with the “Never Trumpers.” And the GOP needs to understand that if what they offer is no better than Democrats, they give tens of millions of gun owners no reason to vote for them, and they’ll go the way of the Whigs (which is looking like the plan). In the end, it needs us more than we need it. After all, say the Democrats eventually sweep the political chessboard and outlaw guns, which is their documented ultimate goal.

Are you going to turn yours in?

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.