If “know thyself” is the first step to wisdom, “know thy audience” is the first step to not getting humiliated on Twitter. Unfortunately for himself but fortunately for those of us needing a good laugh, Trump-hating neocon Bill Kristol forgot that salient rule of Twitter on Friday and posted a poll about Trump running for president.
Predictably, the poll started with Kristol’s true believers in “orange man bad,” but the people who follow him to mock him saw it and got it to their audiences, leading to a massive result in favor of Trump. Out of more than 200,000 votes, nearly 75 percent were for Trump. Here that is:
Trump shouldn’t be president again.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 9, 2023
The Kari Lake War Room had a number of comments on the post, saying, “This went great. Thanks, @BillKristol” and then also posting a poll mocking him for asking dumb questions, with more than 97 percent of the almost 11,000 voters agreeing that Bill Kristol should “learn a lesson from this and stop asking stupid questions.”
.@BillKristol should learn a lesson from this and stop asking stupid questions.
— Kari Lake War Room (@KariLakeWarRoom) June 10, 2023
Another pro-Trump, conservative account commented on Kristol’s poll and said, “I don’t think this poll is going the way you wanted 🤣🤣🤣👉🤡”
Kristol has kept up his smarmy, condescending attitude on Twitter regardless of the poll. In one recent tweet, he quoted a Bulwark article, saying, “Republican voters know exactly who and what Trump is…Trump is presenting himself to this group again…What Republican voters tell pollsters will be the equivalent of pop quizzes. What they do with their primary votes in 2024 will be their final exam.”
In another, he attacked DeSantis for defending southern history, saying, “As @JVLast has pointed out, infantilizing voters is one reason the Republican Party has gone down the awful road it’s on. Infantilizing politicians is just as bad. DeSantis is a literate adult with access to information. Embracing the cause of Confederate generals is his choice.”
Krisol’s timeline is also full of him wringing his hands and clutching his pearls over the documents Trump had at Mar-a-Lago, making the usual insinuations that Trump was handing them off to foreign powers.
In another post, Kristol bizarrely accused the GOP of being too friendly to Trump, saying, “It does seem as if the Republican Party is going to follow its now familiar path of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity to break with Trump.”
Kristol, though he claims to be a Republican, has spent most of his time and energy in recent years attacking Trump, which hurts the party he claims to be a part of and helps the Democrats. During the 2020 election, for example, Kristol raised and spent tens of millions of dollars targeting Trump, money which helped put Joe Biden in office. That non-profit also spent millions that was used to push lawmakers into accepting Biden’s agenda, which also helped the left.
Kristol was in the Reagan administration and a vocal supporter of George Bush, paricularly his disastrous war for democracy in Iraq that ended in failure after thousands of American casualties and trillions of wasted dollars spent, along with the 2008 financial collapse.
Featured image: Bill Kristol, Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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