@wdlindsy reposting for the purpose of analysing or critiquing might be citing, reposting for the purpose of amplifying a message feels a lot more like platforming to me.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to imply you supported Kristol's views: I do not know you and have no reason to assume so. But I still do think there is no good reason to give any inkling of attention to that person, regardless of how palatable his *current* views might be.

@wdlindsy This is not really about electoral purity: I have no problem letting just about anyone short of the current fascist-tinged GOP express their support for the opposite side.

But I fail to see the point of platforming a man who has made ragingly rightwing takes his trademark, and whose left-demonising rhetoric of the 2000s certainly played a role in bringing us here. Plenty of others making the exact same point, with none of his intellectually-bankrupt positions on record.

@wdlindsy The hilariousness of seeing William F Kristol, of all people, taking a high road on anything…
Sorry, but even pissing on Trump cannot redeem Kristol. There are plenty enough articulate critiques of that orange fascist, to not bring back bush-era warmongering neocons.