'Fools?' Conservative blasts Trump for being voice of 'old-world autocracy'
Conservative writer Bill Kristol harkened back to the "older and simpler days" of "republican virtue" in his latest piece for The Bulwark, which accuses President Donald Trump of carrying on the voice of "old-world autocracy."
"I’m old enough to remember when this was a republic. A proud republic," Kristol wrote. "We were proud to be different from the principalities and powers of the old world. We were confident of our superiority to the hereditary aristocracies and monarchies that had dominated political life everywhere on the globe, and that still did in many places."
To outline his point, Kristol cited passages from The Federalist Papers — written around 1787 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay — that spoke out against nobility, emoluments, and taking gifts from kings....
