NeverTrumper Bill Kristol Announces He's
a Dem, Gives Most Preposterous Reason
for the Change
The Western Journal,
by
C. Douglas Golden
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
5/24/2026 8:46:40 PM
In the most stunning revelation since it was confirmed Liberace liked the dudes, Bill Kristol — neocon, publisher, and one-time Republican operative extraordinaire — has announced he’s now a Democrat.
Kristol is best known both for his punditry in print and on various cable news hits, as well as publishing The Weekly Standard, long known as one of the pillars of the conservative establishment.
However, while the conservative establishment generally didn’t like Donald Trump as he became a serious candidate during the 2016 cycle, Kristol had an anaphylactic reaction to suddenly being displaced by the populist rabble. Fast-forward 10 years and the professional NeverTrumper has become yet another professional mouthpiece
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 5/24/2026 9:11:27 PM (No. 2108347)
He had long functioned as a Democrat; he merely formalized it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/24/2026 9:28:45 PM (No. 2108349)
So, Kristol finally came out of the closet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/24/2026 9:35:42 PM (No. 2108351)
Stephen L. Miller — “Buddy you were a democrat 15 years ago. Which is exactly how and why Donald Trump happened.”
Yes, along with the fact of other so-called Republicans who still haven’t said it out loud….but, we have long known who they are too. Actions do indeed speak louder than words, just as C. Douglas Golden indicated in his opening sentence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/24/2026 10:44:10 PM (No. 2108361)
William Kristol
DeepState/DeepSwamp
Enemy Of The People
Never To Be Trusted
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/24/2026 11:16:25 PM (No. 2108368)
Because he's completely lost his mind. Bon voyage, fool.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/24/2026 11:27:21 PM (No. 2108370)
As the dem party dives more into oblivion every day, Bill is joining them.
No wonder the Republicans had been so ineffective when smug twits like this were acting as moral guides for the party.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/24/2026 11:27:30 PM (No. 2108371)
I detest these people. We were led by misleaders like Kristol for decades, selling themselves as conservatives while selling us out. In 2016, they took a stand against Trump because he threatened their professional monopoly of the conservatives movement, and they stood against all of us.
As bad as that was, to stand against President Trump in 2020, with his known record of conservative accomplishments, and to connive in the election of a visibly brain-damaged Biden wasn't just un-american. It was anti-american.
Bill Kristol should be ashamed of himself, but he clearly lacks any residual capacity for moral judgment. He is, like all the rest of the anti-Trumpers, shameless.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/25/2026 12:18:12 AM (No. 2108377)
For sale. Like a prostitute.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gorzabozo 5/25/2026 1:03:53 AM (No. 2108381)
FTA: "I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat."
As a beloved college professor at La. Tech University said to me one day - "How did you reach that convulsion?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
valinva 5/25/2026 3:52:02 AM (No. 2108394)
Kristol realized he could get more gigs appearing on leftist media if he announced that he was a Democrat rather than just blather against Trump and actual Conservatism.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/25/2026 4:09:31 AM (No. 2108395)
Is he An anti-semite too? Or hasn’t he heard? Dims are staunchly anti-semitic.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/25/2026 5:43:44 AM (No. 2108398)
Democraps are nothing like he mentioned in his message! Nothing! What a damned fool he be. I guess he always has been such... now he takes ownership of that description!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/25/2026 7:18:50 AM (No. 2108422)
Nobody cares, Bill!
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Without an ethical and moral tether, many go where they feel they ccan have power and influence.
It is precisely why we have RINOs. They wanted to be in power, but could not manage it in their party.
And we did not assess their ethics when they came into our party.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
petrichor 5/25/2026 7:42:34 AM (No. 2108438)
His reasons for becoming a Dem make no sense at all. They're contrary to what the Dems stand for. Seems Mr. Kristol is really only about himself.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mifla 5/25/2026 7:42:40 AM (No. 2108439)
If it walk like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a duck.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 5/25/2026 7:55:15 AM (No. 2108450)
Bingo #10. The MSNOW schills will be salivating to put him on their shows. As long as they think he’s useful. Yawn.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 5/25/2026 8:51:15 AM (No. 2108482)
Now Mr. Bristol, you are irrelevant.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/25/2026 9:20:38 AM (No. 2108496)
Probably has a vacation home in Maine - not far from where Platner "works" oystering.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/25/2026 9:36:36 AM (No. 2108515)
The only logical explanation is that he fell from a ladder and landed on his head on a concrete sidewalk.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/25/2026 9:49:56 AM (No. 2108528)
This is akin to an old acquaintance announcing to you that they are gay, when you knew from the first time you met them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 5/25/2026 9:52:49 AM (No. 2108531)
The author didn't need to write anything further than Bill Kristol's quote. Kristol's eloquence on his witless stupidity was absolutely brilliant. Irving Kristol is spinning in his grave.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
raspberry 5/25/2026 9:52:53 AM (No. 2108532)
I have known about his corrupt politics for about 40 years.
He's a colossal phony and egotist. Now he admits what we already knew.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 5/25/2026 9:54:23 AM (No. 2108534)
He must have had a stroke that effected his thinking..
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/25/2026 9:55:06 AM (No. 2108535)
Kristol is another pundit corpse that has been thrown into the dustbin forever.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 5/25/2026 10:00:58 AM (No. 2108540)
I've always thought Kristol was a sniveling little cuck (to use a socially acceptable four-letter C word). He's the utmost example of a limp wristed nepo baby who simply rode daddy's coattails up the ladder but was never really what he was posturing at. But beyond that, he's also clearly retarded having no understanding of what today's Rats stand for. Freedom? Law and order? Limited government? Pro Constitution? The Rats are none of that. But you know what, as Kristol is a retarded milquetoast pantywaiste, the Rats can have him. Good riddance!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
chagrined 5/25/2026 10:30:52 AM (No. 2108555)
Everyone knew he was a nattering nabob of the chattering class for a long time. He's just now admitting his bad case of Rinoism. . .like we needed his verification. What a putz.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 5/25/2026 11:53:38 AM (No. 2108582)
What an oddity he is. He is Jewish and is now a Democrat? He needs to speak with Alan Derschowitz.
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