[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @BillKristol Bill Kristol Bill Kristol posts on X about over the, trump and, shutdown, pritzker the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +98% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +11% - X Months XXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.08% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.32% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +1.20% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #4344 [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) #4221 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [mls](/list/mls) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [over the](/topic/over-the) 0.39%, [trump and](/topic/trump-and) #525, [shutdown](/topic/shutdown) 0.26%, [pritzker](/topic/pritzker) #27, [las](/topic/las) 0.26%, [maga](/topic/maga) #1618, [hannah](/topic/hannah) #416, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #4109, [brave](/topic/brave) 0.13%, [up the](/topic/up-the) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@moonlitlynx87](/creator/undefined) [@realdonaldtrump](/creator/undefined) [@bulwarkonline](/creator/undefined) [@njh2005](/creator/undefined) [@jonezwalleye](/creator/undefined) [@exberner17](/creator/undefined) [@fivecar5](/creator/undefined) [@ofthebraveusa](/creator/undefined) [@timodc](/creator/undefined) [@ingelramdecoucy](/creator/undefined) [@agpambondi](/creator/undefined) [@eggerdc](/creator/undefined) [@stephenm](/creator/undefined) [@sarahlongwell25](/creator/undefined) [@lauraloomer](/creator/undefined) [@wollastonwntr63](/creator/undefined) [@andersonev37024](/creator/undefined) [@christysimm23](/creator/undefined) [@jeremymaganthor](/creator/undefined) [@freedom110524](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2800581040/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours ""The administration has diverged from previous ones. 'Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on'.This divergence takes two forms: personal loyalty to the president over loyalty to institutions and a commitment to outcomes instead of rules."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978822063776227639) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T13:55Z 1M followers, 15.1K engagements "No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977719939839447312) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T12:55Z 1M followers, 108.8K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977849931277734119) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T21:32Z 1M followers, 140K engagements "Stand up to Trump and follow @OfTheBraveUSA. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977800776081621151) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T18:17Z 1M followers, 144.6K engagements "Politicians who accuse their critics of Hating Americahate America" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978119334359687201) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T15:22Z 1M followers, 88.7K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977710055144239474) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T12:16Z 1M followers, 341.7K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977751850716705093) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T15:02Z 1M followers, 32.7K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1976018506354425965) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-08T20:14Z 1M followers, 263.3K engagements "brb I like to play cards too off to Vegas to make $XXX million" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979147520312758389) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T11:28Z 1M followers, 29.7K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978094391366468091) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T13:43Z 1M followers, 37.9K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1911938619884843486) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978263486275731819) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T00:55Z 1M followers, 49.1K engagements ""Trump will fail if people & institutions coordinate against him which is why his administration is targeting businesses and civil society proposing corrupting bargains to those who acquiesce and punishing holdouts to terrify the rest into submission."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978776979760464075) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T10:56Z 1M followers, 18.1K engagements "A notice from @OfTheBraveUSA. Will run in newspapers across the nation" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977774052128211115) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T16:30Z 1M followers, 404.7K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977127638054715826) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-11T21:42Z 1M followers, 37.4K engagements ""The administration is laying the groundwork for subjecting speech critical of it to suppression and prosecution. There are indications that new crackdowns on dissent dissenters and the institutions that employ them and their funders are imminent."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978770005240979781) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T10:28Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements ""But the administration is moving beyond targeting individuals against whom Trump has a grievance. All critics are at risk of legal assault. The administration claims peaceful protests are controlled by antifa--which they claim is a terrorist conspiracy."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978462308377501949) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T14:05Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements "I think Vances New Right will carry the argument. The motivation is obvious: As long as you never criticize anyone on the right for smaller scandals you dont have to do the same when the consequences are much greater and involve someone like Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978846396707987491) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T15:32Z 1M followers, 14.1K engagements ""Kentuckians organizing No Kings rallies say the derogatory labels Republicans in D.C. are attaching to the protesters ahead of Saturdays gatherings are a sign the anti-Trump movement is gaining momentum. They also call the claims absurd and untrue."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978815459345486255) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T13:29Z 1M followers, 17.7K engagements ""We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. No Kings is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. Its up to us to keep it."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978462599818649802) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T14:06Z 1M followers, 12.3K engagements ""After all these years it remains impossible to process that at this moment with everything on the line it is Liz alone. How could it be.There should have been a line of honest and wise men a mile long standing behind Cheney on Thursday."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1842279040628973852) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2024-10-04T19:02Z 1M followers, 1.3M engagements "I repeat: If you say No Kings is a We Hate America rally then youre the one who hates America" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978848233469190494) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T15:39Z 1M followers, 268.4K engagements ""With its steady escalation of military force against its own citizens this administration proves that the most immediate threat to our constitutional order is not on the streets. It is coming from inside the White House."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1975958706677596197) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-08T16:17Z 1M followers, 15.2K engagements "In Dobbs the Court struck down an almost 50-year old Court decision. There arent many cases of the Court striking down congressional legislation thats been around XX years and was overwhelmingly reauthorized not so long ago" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978849296402260204) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T15:43Z 1M followers, 194.1K engagements ""Modern conservatism always contained the seeds of authoritarianism. But the same can probably be said of most ideological movements cant it When it comes to modern American conservatism those seeds flowered because of choices actions and events."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978439868918153268) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T12:36Z 1M followers, 14.2K engagements ""The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978777638685512116) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T10:58Z 1M followers, 13.5K engagements "Big tech: From capitulation to collaboration. Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trumps Immigration Force" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979162102217552291) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T12:26Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements ""Theres this giant Antifa conspiracy and therefore we have to have a state of emergency.A kind of totalitarian politics where you imagine this enemy that has no face and is invisible and you are allowed to go after them with whatever means necessary."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978825122820588024) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T14:07Z 1M followers, 10.1K engagements ""And so when millions of Americans gather tomorrow under the banner of No Kings they will do so in the spirit of Jefferson and Madison and in loyalty to the Declaration and the Constitution."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979182094140997846) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T13:45Z 1M followers, 118.9K engagements "Soldiers & sailors swear an oath to the Constitution. Yesterday a four-star flag officer resigned his combatant command ending a 37-year military career less than a year into his post likely due to Trump's orders to kill civilians on alleged drug boats" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979181601092251651) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T13:43Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements ""It is the eternal struggle between these two principles right and wrong. One is the common right of humanity the other the divine right of kings.When a king seeks to bestride the people of his own nation it is the same tyrannical principle." -- Abraham Lincoln #NoKings" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979292508049019268) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T21:04Z 1M followers, 17.5K engagements ""So why am I surprisingly cheerful this morning Its because of the kids the Pope and the protesters."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977735465181540793) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T13:57Z 1M followers, 118.6K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977718207315145035) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T12:48Z 1M followers, 31.6K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1975935331246707061) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-08T14:44Z 1M followers, 12.2K engagements ""We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. Were talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978771158091600213) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T10:33Z 1M followers, 323.9K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977711665794666817) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T12:22Z 1M followers, 36.3K engagements "Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit and deploying federal troops is horseshit" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1971979470543507868) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-09-27T16:45Z 1M followers, 733K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977751527201616112) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T15:01Z 1M followers, 19.2K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977354554552316209) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-12T12:43Z 1M followers, 15.9K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977711118974955999) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T12:20Z 1M followers, 57K engagements ""With millions of people signed up to attend thousands of No Kings demonstrations the GOPs alarm is clear from the hallucinatory talking points about Hate America rallies. They are weaving a tale of terrorists Marxists and paid protesters."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979157374448398354) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T12:07Z 1M followers, 16.9K engagements "Scott Peoples chairman Veterans for Responsible Leadership: As a veteran I believe that we have a duty to speak up and be leaders in our communities. The oath we take to the constitution is for life" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979197854829687280) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T14:48Z 1M followers, 11K engagements "Tom Joscelyn explains why "the shortest path to authoritarian regime is a mass deportation regime."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977413939777740950) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-12T16:39Z 1M followers, 32.5K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977735097265578001) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-13T13:56Z 1M followers, 295.9K engagements ""This is what you get after a decade of Trumpisms ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers and has held them up as an ideal for the young people coming up behind them to emulate."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978463538155786365) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T14:10Z 1M followers, 18.3K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977353472585379986) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-12T12:39Z 1M followers, 20.9K engagements ""Its easy to say you can draw a line from Reagan to Trump. Its also easy to say Trump represents an aberration a malignant deviation from True Conservatism. Im pretty sure both of those answers are somewhat correct. And that neither is fully correct."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978439140170461603) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T12:33Z 1M followers, 41K engagements ""It's getting worse. Trumps authoritarian apparatchiks are tightening their control over the key power ministries of the federal government. And they are getting more aggressive in asserting their power over the private sector and civil society."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978460945513885714) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T14:00Z 1M followers, 26.8K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1976859892599439869) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-11T03:58Z 1M followers, 407.1K engagements "A top official at the Department of Homeland Security has been caught posting totally inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978527951311237460) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-15T18:26Z 1M followers, 41.9K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977356189051609488) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-12T12:50Z 1M followers, 18.1K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978093112921612552) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T13:38Z 1M followers, 12.1K engagements "We followed all the rules. But in Trumps second term theres no level of competence compliance or silence that will protect people from state retribution. That theyre getting to people like me this early is such a tell. They are moving so fast" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979184276026401280) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T13:54Z 1M followers, 20.5K engagements "OK Im on board. Pritzker 2028 Campaign slogan: Take a Gamble on Pritzker" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978916512476922342) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T20:10Z 1M followers, 413K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1976259688267210980) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-09T12:13Z 1M followers, 28.8K engagements "SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters and whats at stake in Ukraine. This is if I may say so a must-watch" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978613094990450865) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T00:04Z 1M followers, 47K engagements "A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson. What does he mean by they are going to descend on our capital WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1979220517442777180) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-17T16:18Z 1M followers, 186.3K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978076010596729075) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T12:30Z 1M followers, 512.6K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978095740564943147) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T13:49Z 1M followers, 36.5K engagements ""The Trump authoritarian project is accelerating. This is an avalanche of Watergate-level stuff all packed into a single dayonly the president and his team are shouting it from the rooftops not covering it up."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978826578923503663) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T14:13Z 1M followers, 17.9K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1976262753598738769) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-09T12:25Z 1M followers, 31.4K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1975188544844120088) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-06T13:17Z 1M followers, 83.4K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1972039652132655325) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-09-27T20:44Z 1M followers, 40K 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977117668684771336) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-11T21:02Z 1M followers, 185.2K engagements "IS THERE A PLACE in the Republican operative class for people who love Hitler How about those who like making jokes about black people eating watermelon Thats the debate consuming the MAGA movement this week" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978845252430541284) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-16T15:27Z 1M followers, 16.4K engagements "Our cities arent war ravaged. Theyre ICE ravaged" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1972073511306014757) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-09-27T22:58Z 1M followers, 1.3M 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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1977358852908609821) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1975713722011463818) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-08T00:03Z 1M followers, 113.7K engagements ""The Pentagon is not merely tightening a policy. It is attempting to redefine journalism as a privilege granted on condition of obedience: The government decides what reporters may seek before they seek it and punishes them for seeking anything else."" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978067875177898147) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T11:58Z 1M followers, 17.9K engagements "The senior military officers: Their silence was golden. Trump and Hegseth: At once clownish and dangerous" [X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1973042414366634161) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/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](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1978095025218072898) [@BillKristol](/creator/x/BillKristol) 2025-10-14T13:46Z 1M followers, 33.1K engagements
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""The administration has diverged from previous ones. 'Nothing like what we see now has ever gone on'.This divergence takes two forms: personal loyalty to the president over loyalty to institutions and a commitment to outcomes instead of rules.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T13:55Z 1M followers, 15.1K engagements
"No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T12:55Z 1M followers, 108.8K 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, 140K engagements
"Stand up to Trump and follow @OfTheBraveUSA. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T18:17Z 1M followers, 144.6K engagements
"Politicians who accuse their critics of Hating Americahate America"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T15:22Z 1M followers, 88.7K 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, 341.7K 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, 32.7K 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, 263.3K engagements
"brb I like to play cards too off to Vegas to make $XXX million"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T11:28Z 1M followers, 29.7K 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, 37.9K 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, 49.1K engagements
""Trump will fail if people & institutions coordinate against him which is why his administration is targeting businesses and civil society proposing corrupting bargains to those who acquiesce and punishing holdouts to terrify the rest into submission.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T10:56Z 1M followers, 18.1K engagements
"A notice from @OfTheBraveUSA. Will run in newspapers across the nation"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-13T16:30Z 1M followers, 404.7K 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, 37.4K engagements
""The administration is laying the groundwork for subjecting speech critical of it to suppression and prosecution. There are indications that new crackdowns on dissent dissenters and the institutions that employ them and their funders are imminent.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T10:28Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements
""But the administration is moving beyond targeting individuals against whom Trump has a grievance. All critics are at risk of legal assault. The administration claims peaceful protests are controlled by antifa--which they claim is a terrorist conspiracy.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T14:05Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements
"I think Vances New Right will carry the argument. The motivation is obvious: As long as you never criticize anyone on the right for smaller scandals you dont have to do the same when the consequences are much greater and involve someone like Trump"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T15:32Z 1M followers, 14.1K engagements
""Kentuckians organizing No Kings rallies say the derogatory labels Republicans in D.C. are attaching to the protesters ahead of Saturdays gatherings are a sign the anti-Trump movement is gaining momentum. They also call the claims absurd and untrue.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T13:29Z 1M followers, 17.7K engagements
""We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. No Kings is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. Its up to us to keep it.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T14:06Z 1M followers, 12.3K engagements
""After all these years it remains impossible to process that at this moment with everything on the line it is Liz alone. How could it be.There should have been a line of honest and wise men a mile long standing behind Cheney on Thursday.""
X Link @BillKristol 2024-10-04T19:02Z 1M followers, 1.3M engagements
"I repeat: If you say No Kings is a We Hate America rally then youre the one who hates America"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T15:39Z 1M followers, 268.4K engagements
""With its steady escalation of military force against its own citizens this administration proves that the most immediate threat to our constitutional order is not on the streets. It is coming from inside the White House.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-08T16:17Z 1M followers, 15.2K engagements
"In Dobbs the Court struck down an almost 50-year old Court decision. There arent many cases of the Court striking down congressional legislation thats been around XX years and was overwhelmingly reauthorized not so long ago"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T15:43Z 1M followers, 194.1K engagements
""Modern conservatism always contained the seeds of authoritarianism. But the same can probably be said of most ideological movements cant it When it comes to modern American conservatism those seeds flowered because of choices actions and events.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T12:36Z 1M followers, 14.2K engagements
""The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T10:58Z 1M followers, 13.5K engagements
"Big tech: From capitulation to collaboration. Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trumps Immigration Force"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T12:26Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements
""Theres this giant Antifa conspiracy and therefore we have to have a state of emergency.A kind of totalitarian politics where you imagine this enemy that has no face and is invisible and you are allowed to go after them with whatever means necessary.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T14:07Z 1M followers, 10.1K engagements
""And so when millions of Americans gather tomorrow under the banner of No Kings they will do so in the spirit of Jefferson and Madison and in loyalty to the Declaration and the Constitution.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T13:45Z 1M followers, 118.9K engagements
"Soldiers & sailors swear an oath to the Constitution. Yesterday a four-star flag officer resigned his combatant command ending a 37-year military career less than a year into his post likely due to Trump's orders to kill civilians on alleged drug boats"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T13:43Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements
""It is the eternal struggle between these two principles right and wrong. One is the common right of humanity the other the divine right of kings.When a king seeks to bestride the people of his own nation it is the same tyrannical principle." -- Abraham Lincoln #NoKings"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T21:04Z 1M followers, 17.5K 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, 118.6K 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, 31.6K 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, 12.2K engagements
""We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. Were talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T10:33Z 1M followers, 323.9K 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, 36.3K 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, 733K 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, 19.2K 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, 15.9K 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, 57K engagements
""With millions of people signed up to attend thousands of No Kings demonstrations the GOPs alarm is clear from the hallucinatory talking points about Hate America rallies. They are weaving a tale of terrorists Marxists and paid protesters.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T12:07Z 1M followers, 16.9K engagements
"Scott Peoples chairman Veterans for Responsible Leadership: As a veteran I believe that we have a duty to speak up and be leaders in our communities. The oath we take to the constitution is for life"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T14:48Z 1M followers, 11K 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, 32.5K 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, 295.9K engagements
""This is what you get after a decade of Trumpisms ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers and has held them up as an ideal for the young people coming up behind them to emulate.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T14:10Z 1M followers, 18.3K 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, 20.9K engagements
""Its easy to say you can draw a line from Reagan to Trump. Its also easy to say Trump represents an aberration a malignant deviation from True Conservatism. Im pretty sure both of those answers are somewhat correct. And that neither is fully correct.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T12:33Z 1M followers, 41K engagements
""It's getting worse. Trumps authoritarian apparatchiks are tightening their control over the key power ministries of the federal government. And they are getting more aggressive in asserting their power over the private sector and civil society.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T14:00Z 1M followers, 26.8K 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, 407.1K engagements
"A top official at the Department of Homeland Security has been caught posting totally inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-15T18:26Z 1M followers, 41.9K 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, 18.1K 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, 12.1K engagements
"We followed all the rules. But in Trumps second term theres no level of competence compliance or silence that will protect people from state retribution. That theyre getting to people like me this early is such a tell. They are moving so fast"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T13:54Z 1M followers, 20.5K engagements
"OK Im on board. Pritzker 2028 Campaign slogan: Take a Gamble on Pritzker"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T20:10Z 1M followers, 413K 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, 28.8K engagements
"SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters and whats at stake in Ukraine. This is if I may say so a must-watch"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T00:04Z 1M followers, 47K engagements
"A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson. What does he mean by they are going to descend on our capital WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-17T16:18Z 1M followers, 186.3K 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, 512.6K 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, 36.5K engagements
""The Trump authoritarian project is accelerating. This is an avalanche of Watergate-level stuff all packed into a single dayonly the president and his team are shouting it from the rooftops not covering it up.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T14:13Z 1M followers, 17.9K 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, 31.4K 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, 83.4K 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, 40K 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, 185.2K engagements
"IS THERE A PLACE in the Republican operative class for people who love Hitler How about those who like making jokes about black people eating watermelon Thats the debate consuming the MAGA movement this week"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-16T15:27Z 1M followers, 16.4K engagements
"Our cities arent war ravaged. Theyre ICE ravaged"
X Link @BillKristol 2025-09-27T22:58Z 1M followers, 1.3M 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, 113.7K engagements
""The Pentagon is not merely tightening a policy. It is attempting to redefine journalism as a privilege granted on condition of obedience: The government decides what reporters may seek before they seek it and punishes them for seeking anything else.""
X Link @BillKristol 2025-10-14T11:58Z 1M followers, 17.9K 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, 33.1K engagements