From the Tom Woods Letter:
My dear friend, I am sure you know the name Bill Kristol: he’s spent decades on all the cable news shows, he was the editor of the Weekly Standard before it folded, and he co-founded the neocon Project for a New American Century.
His predictions are always bad; he’s like the political version of Jim Cramer.
And he never saw a war he didn’t love.
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Well, things have started to unravel for poor Bill over the past eight to ten years, to the point that he barely knows what hit him.
He no doubt expected to live out his life as a TV commentator respected in D.C. circles (but with no real connection to actual Americans), an important influencer within the conservative movement, and a distinguished guest at the fashionable parties.
That is over now.
One of the major blows against Kristol occurred several years ago, when he made the unwise decision to participate in a public debate against our own Scott Horton on the wisdom of “regime change” in U.S. foreign policy.
Kristol had his head handed to him. You can find it on YouTube.
He is not used to dealing with people who fundamentally disagree with him. The cable news shows pitted him against people whose outlook was ten percent different from his own. Rarely if ever had Kristol come across someone who opposed the empire root and branch.
It was one illustration of a general principle: the regime and its lackeys are unimpressive people, and survive and prosper only inside a bubble.
As nonintervention, or at least a more restrained foreign policy, has come to inhabit an evidently permanent place on the political right, Kristol has done his best to persuade conservatives that they ought to keep on funding his various interventions.
It hasn’t gone well.
Kristol used to be welcomed at the Heritage Foundation. That is the world he remembers: when he was treated with respect by a toothless “conservative movement.”
He is not accustomed to this world, in which the Heritage Foundation mocks him:
And instead of being treated with deference, Kristol is most certainly not accustomed to this:
Or having one of the most influential men in the world do this:
All of this is poetic justice on behalf of all the widows and orphans Bill helped create over the decades.
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Oh, and what a surprise: ol’ Bill was a cheerleader for the authoritarian Covid response, and even called opponents of mask mandates “nihilistic.”
Wrong about everything, this guy.
Well, the old man here can’t guarantee always to be right, but I think I did a pretty good job during those Covid years.
If you don’t yet have my book — my first in nine years! — Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, here’s a link to the audiobook version (it’s my voice you’ll hear reading it, so the content is delivered with just that combination of sarcasm and contempt that you crave):