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@BillKristol Avatar @BillKristol Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol posts on X about gop, shutdown, dems, trump administration the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social topic influence gop #77, shutdown #151, dems 0.39%, trump administration 0.26%, the only #131, over the #2344, health care 0.26%, epstein files 0.26%, agencies 0.26%, hannah #51

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"No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:55Z 1M followers, 96.3K engagements

"Tim and I discuss the return of the hostages GOP leaders calling peaceful protesters terrorists" and why that's truly ominous our admiration for the protesters against ICE and our hopes for No Kings and the fact we (sort of) agree with MTG"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T21:32Z 1M followers, 76.8K engagements

""We are facing a clear and present authoritarian danger. In these circumstances can Democrats in Congress continue to take the position that their demand from the Trump administration is simply to restore health care funding I dont think so.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T13:49Z 1M followers, 68.5K engagements

"Stand up to Trump and follow @OfTheBraveUSA. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T18:17Z 1M followers, 142.8K engagements

"Politicians who accuse their critics of Hating Americahate America"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T15:22Z 1M followers, 84K engagements

"Salis told the Guardian that Hungarys use of the term antifa was a way of stigmatising whoever dissents whoever doesnt agree with the regime. She added: If being anti-fascist means dissenting with his regime of course I am an anti-fascist"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T14:42Z 1M followers, 35K engagements

"Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: A standing military force with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-05T01:12Z 1M followers, 116.8K engagements

""To bring a democracy under authoritarian control you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public as we slide toward one-man rule that nothing odd is happening. Thats the role Johnson is playing in Trumps takeover.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:16Z 1M followers, 336.9K engagements

"i e Halligan reports directly to Trump"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-11T16:54Z 1M followers, 121.1K engagements

""So Im oddly cheerful. Could the inflatables ultimately carry the day against ICE Could the pope prevail over the president Could young people save the country from their elders Heres hoping.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T15:02Z 1M followers, 32.5K engagements

"Which is more alarming That the Homeland Security secretary might actually believe that Antifa is as dangerous as Hezbollah or Hamas Or that shes willing to engage in this level of lying and demagoguery Neither is good"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T20:14Z 1M followers, 263K engagements

""No Kings is a protest against oppression and authoritarianism.I was pleased to attend our local No Kings on June XX and I plan on being there Oct. XX. And Im even more inclined to attend because of the desperate and disgraceful Trumpist smears.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T13:43Z 1M followers, 26.2K engagements

"A handful of R senators and House members could announce: They're caucusing with the Dems for now and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker. And they'll do this in order to work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-04-15T00:24Z 1M followers, 1.1M engagements

"The upcoming No Kings rallies has set off klaxons for Republican lawmakersSome leadership are going further by branding it a pro-terrorism demonstrationan unambiguously false allegation meant to get ahead of a massive protest against the president"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T00:55Z 1M followers, 33.9K engagements

"A notice from @OfTheBraveUSA. Will run in newspapers across the nation"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T16:30Z 1M followers, 400.8K engagements

"The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are arguably the two greatest American films a portrait of America told from the perspective of outsiders peering in. But that works in large part because we see the Corleones through the eyes of Keatons Kay"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-11T21:42Z 1M followers, 37.3K engagements

"ICE is provoking violence and rhetoric coming from Trumpists about their desire for an authoritarian strongman is alarming. But some governors and judges are trying to defend the republic. And Dems should consider broadening their aims in the shutdown"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T20:03Z 1M followers, 70.7K engagements

"No Kings. No Caesar"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T13:31Z 1M followers, 83.5K engagements

"It breaks your heart Bart Giamatti said. It is designed to break your heart. I love that quote but Ive never really believed it. Yes baseball will break your heart but baseball is designed to give you hope. Spring training will come again"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-10T21:17Z 1M followers, 14.7K engagements

"For Noem and Trump and Miller and Hegseth and Patel the brutality is a made-for-tv movie. Its entertainment. And they get off on the raw naked will to power. The law be damned. They love this. They are proud of this. They will keep doing it"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-05T16:32Z 1M followers, 70.8K engagements

"Trump seems worried. Perhaps cutting Americans health care and assaulting families living here peacefully isnt so popular"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-05T17:03Z 1M followers, 44.3K engagements

"The Trump administrations deployment of ICE in the mass deportation effort has led to more violence and turmoil and less safety and security for all including US citizens. But thats a feature not a bug. Chaos justifies further authoritarian crackdowns. The chaos is the point"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-05T13:04Z 1M followers, 123.1K engagements

""Its important to be lucid about where we are. This isnt Trump escalating a fight James started. Its Trump being Trump the only way he knows how: smashing smashing and smashing until the last irritating opponent is gone from his sight.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-10T14:59Z 1M followers, 11.3K engagements

"It should be needless to say but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-14T14:32Z 1M followers, 1.5M engagements

""So why am I surprisingly cheerful this morning Its because of the kids the Pope and the protesters.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T13:57Z 1M followers, 118K engagements

""President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Oct. XX 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trumps previous proclamations.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:48Z 1M followers, 31.3K engagements

""The Trump administrations latest move to reshape higher education--its Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education--is a dangerous overreach.It is coercion an attempt to remake higher education through executive fiat and financial threat.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T14:44Z 1M followers, 12K engagements

""Inflatable frogs have been omnipresent especially after a video went viral last week of a law-enforcement official shooting pepper spray into one of the frog costumes posterior air vents (a sentence that I truly never thought I would write).""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:22Z 1M followers, 36K engagements

"Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit and deploying federal troops is horseshit"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-27T16:45Z 1M followers, 731.7K engagements

"The Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agricultures labor supply"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-11T20:29Z 1M followers, 20.2K engagements

""One has to be impressed by the courageous and peaceful resistance of so many Americans.One has also to be impressed by the protesters use of humor and ridicule. I especially like the inflatable costumes. I trust well see lots at No Kings on Saturday.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T15:01Z 1M followers, 19K engagements

"ITS HARD TO OVERSTATE just how much Trump has expanded presidential power over government spending and in the process remade the relationship between the executive and legislative branches"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T12:43Z 1M followers, 15.8K engagements

"Contrary to @StephenM the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T13:29Z 1M followers, 44.3K engagements

""Thats the sound of a man who will do nothing to challengeand anything to justifypresidential violations of the Constitution as long as the president is of his own party. The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:20Z 1M followers, 56.4K engagements

"Tom Joscelyn explains why "the shortest path to authoritarian regime is a mass deportation regime.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T16:39Z 1M followers, 32.4K engagements

"So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-22T20:03Z 1M followers, 282K engagements

""No Kings is happening and this is how Republicans are talking. Accusations like 'terrorist wing' 'pro-Hamas' and 'Antifa' arent just insults. Theyre phrases that unlock in the view of the administration a permission structure for state violence.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T13:56Z 1M followers, 292.9K engagements

"It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if youre not a mother seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers it was horrible"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-03T13:15Z 1M followers, 82.4K engagements

"Fridays actions are a reminder that stopping Trumps power grabs is also an urgent causeand one where Democrats could if anything be seeking to do even more"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T12:39Z 1M followers, 20.7K engagements

"Border Patrol agents along with other federal agents conducted a military-style raid of an apartment complex in Chicago. Video showed agents indiscriminately bursting through doors. All the evidence suggests egregious violations of rights"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T14:17Z 1M followers, 60.7K engagements

"Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep-elect Grijalva to continue ducking the Epstein discharge petition. So shouldnt Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T17:23Z 1M followers, 20.2K engagements

"This is bad. Many DoD lawyers are also reluctant to openly dissent three current JAGs told CNN. The way forward is just to eat it and put your head down and act in accordance with Hegseths new policies said one. No JAG is trying to rock the boat"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T22:32Z 1M followers, 92.2K engagements

"Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs cracks down on dissenting views in military orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to It's a mystery""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-27T18:00Z 1M followers, 229.1K engagements

"The shameless GOP lying about next Saturdays No Kings gatherings reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to the right of the people peaceably to assemble. I look forward to our local No Kings event and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-11T03:58Z 1M followers, 405.4K engagements

""Bondis contemptuousness was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us. Refusal to even entertain the questions of committee Democrats should have been cause for bipartisan scandal. But Republicans seemed perfectly uninterested.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T14:07Z 1M followers, 37.9K engagements

""Apologists for oppression in Taiwan and the mainland said 'Liberal democracy is incompatible with Chinese culture.' Cohen told me 'Taiwan is a living refutation of that claim.' He was not willing to write off the democratization of China either.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-03T14:20Z 1M followers, 12.3K engagements

"And theres just a real existential question of how do you write down a law that binds an actor whos already demonstrated willingness to disregard the law"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T12:50Z 1M followers, 18K engagements

""The core of how Trump sees the world: Trump people & Biden people heroes & villains patriots & terrorists. All political actors are sorted into two great camps.All that matters is whether Trump perceives them as loyal allies or outside agitators.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T13:38Z 1M followers, 11.5K engagements

""We have a WWE president.Kash Patel: Hes a performer. Hegseth: Hes a performer. People leading a lot of these agencies are performers. Everything were seeing is a performance but with real guns and destroying real peoples lives"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-09T12:13Z 1M followers, 28.6K engagements

"James Carville: "This just goes to show you if you steal a hundred dollars youre in trouble. If you steal a billion dollars no one can digest it. I do think that this periodthe mid 2020sis going to be known for its corruption.and so far theyre getting away with it.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T12:30Z 1M followers, 420.2K engagements

"An important explanation by Ryan Goodman of how Trumps claimed extraordinary national security powersat home and abroadfit together and where it could all lead. Could there be meaningful checks from within the administration the courts or Congress"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-05T20:05Z 1M followers, 38.6K engagements

""So we read with interest the news that two Nobel-winning MIT economists are decamping for the University of Zurich next year. MAGA may be fine with this. But we liked it when America was a magnet for Nobel laureates not a place they wanted to flee.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T13:49Z 1M followers, 33.9K engagements

"NEW James Carville at his most insightful outspoken and occasionally acerbic--on the current political moment (including his very interesting reaction to the speeches of Hegseth and Trump) prospects for 2026 and 2028 and Kamala Harris and JD Vance"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-03T15:23Z 1M followers, 30.2K engagements

""We are facing a clear and present authoritarian danger. Dont Democrats need to demand that provisions curbing the administrations authoritarian moves need to be attached to legislation funding the government""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-09T12:25Z 1M followers, 31.3K engagements

"At this inflection point for Trump's authoritarian project the democratic resistance can rise to the occasion by linking together its legal prong (lawsuits) its political prong (the government shutdown) and its popular prong (No Kings). A moment of challenge and opportunity"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T13:17Z 1M followers, 83.3K engagements

""Indeed the sounds well hear today will be the pitter-patter of GOP feet scurrying as fast as they can to cameras to curry favor with their neon god by complaining loudly that he didnt get the Nobel Peace Prize they have to say he deserved.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-10T15:02Z 1M followers, 15K engagements

"I was actually more aghast at what Hegseth said I was a Marine XX years ago. I got news for you theyre much better trained than we wereThe Secretary of Defense is telling our own people that theyre no goodThey dont like America thats what I really believe"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-07T15:28Z 1M followers, 546.9K engagements

"I'm not a big MLS fan but I see the Portland Timbers are playing all their games and doing ok despite playing in a war ravaged city. And Powell's Books the world's largest independent bookstore is holding book readings pretty much every night. Impressive. Like London 1940"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-27T20:44Z 1M followers, 39.9K engagements

""The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth.but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real worldand the category of truth versus falsehood--is being destroyed." -- Hannah Arendt"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-11T21:02Z 1M followers, 184.5K engagements

"Our cities arent war ravaged. Theyre ICE ravaged"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-27T22:58Z 1M followers, 1.3M engagements

""Its fine for Democrats to continue to make the case for our health care. But they need also now to make the case for our Constitution and for our republic and our country.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-06T13:53Z 1M followers, 24.6K engagements

""This is where weve been headed since Jan. X. The man who fomented an actual insurrection invents a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law & deploying the military vs. civilians. The thing about Rubicons is they cant be uncrossed.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T14:26Z 1M followers, 32K engagements

""Trump is dangerously and perversely fusing the roles of the US military and domestic agencies. What we are seeing is the worst of both worlds: domestic agents adopting military tactics and the military being drawn into domestic political conflicts.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T14:01Z 1M followers, 18.6K engagements

"Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T13:01Z 1M followers, 1.8M engagements

"I wish I could be the guy who says calm down; things have been just as bad before and we got through it. But I cant be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T00:03Z 1M followers, 113.5K engagements

""In the US the risks of stepping forward pale compared to those faced by dissidents elsewhere. Surely its not too much to hope that some timid Americans could find inspiration from the example of Mara Corina Machado and 'refuse to stay silent.'"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-10T15:04Z 1M followers, 11.4K engagements

"The senior military officers: Their silence was golden. Trump and Hegseth: At once clownish and dangerous"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-30T15:09Z 1M followers, 3.4M engagements

""Mike Johnson and Tom Emmer called No Kings a hate America rally. But those expected Saturday are there to speak FOR America. Theyre assembling in order to defend our core constitutional rights.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T13:46Z 1M followers, 20.2K engagements

"Portland the lies vs. the reality"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-12T13:53Z 1M followers, 32K engagements