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The future of populist conservatism

5 September 2020

1:15 AM

5 September 2020

1:15 AM

Laramie, Wyoming

William Kristol, a Grand Poobah of neoconservatism, is leaving the Republican party to join the donkeys of the Democratic one. As Dorothy Parker remarked on being told that Calvin Coolidge had died, ‘How could they tell?’ Mr Kristol, of course, was never a Republican to begin with, only a conservative Democrat.

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