Some People in D.C. Never Shut Up.

You may recall that back in 2016 when Trump started slicing through the Republican primary field that a group emerged in D.C. which called itself ABT, meaning anyone but Trump. The group represented a bunch of Republican diehards who thought that Trump was too vulgar, too stupid, and too inexperienced politically to be a national candidate for the GOP.

In fact, the real reason that there was opposition to Trump from within the GOP was because he didn’t owe the Republican Party any favors and if he became the nominee, he wouldn’t necessarily give them any access or any important roles in his campaign.

One of the leaders of this resistance to Trump was Bill Kristol, whose father Irving, was one of the founders of something called neoconservatism, which was an offshoot of the Democratic Party largely focused on a very militaristic foreign policy and a refusal to apologize for Viet Nam. Irving Kristol promoted neoconservative ideology as the editor of Commentary magazine, a right-wing, Jewish monthly op-ed publication which claimed to be ‘independent’ but in fact took money from the CIA.

Bill Kristol of course went to Harvard both for his B.A and PhD degrees. He did an internship in the Carter White House in 1970 and was bitten by the public interest — D.C. career bug. After some university teaching gigs, he came back to D.C. in 1985 and has moved easily between media spieling, magazine editing and conservative advocacy ever since.