Bill Kristol Says He’s A Democrat Now, But Was He Secretly Always One?

Since the early days of the “Never Trump” movement, neoconservative and former editor-in-chief of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol has styled himself as one of the few “principled conservatives” left in a movement that he believes has been consumed by a cult-like obsession with President Donald Trump. In early February, Kristol, pushed to the limits of endurance by what he saw as an inexcusable perversion of conservative ideology by Trump, declared that not only was he now a Democrat, but that “we are all Democrats now.”