NeverTrumper Bill Kristol Announces He’s a Dem, Gives Most Preposterous Reason for the Change

In the most stunning revelation since it was confirmed Liberace liked the dudes, Bill Kristol — neocon, publisher, and one-time Republican operative extraordinaire — has announced he’s now a Democrat.

Kristol is best known both for his punditry in print and on various cable news hits, as well as publishing The Weekly Standard, long known as one of the pillars of the conservative establishment.

However, while the conservative establishment generally didn’t like Donald Trump as he became a serious candidate during the 2016 cycle, Kristol had an anaphylactic reaction to suddenly being displaced by the populist rabble. Fast-forward 10 years and the professional NeverTrumper has become yet another professional mouthpiece who has decided he’s so much of a Not That Kind of a Republican™ that he’s not a Republican.

His reasons, alas, can be described — at best — as strange.

“I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the