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I deeply appreciate Republicans who can reconsider their biases and views and stop defending the indefensible. I listen to them and think about how they have changed, wishing some people I know personally could do the same. Bill Kristol is one example. Remember where he used to stand, and appreciate the differences decades later. It will give you hope for some other people. Brian Ragle @vagabondvisions.bsky.social · Hey Bill, remember that time you were Dan Quayle’s chief of staff and helped lead the GOP campaign to discredit Anita Hill, then hired David Brock at The Weekly Standard after he wrote a whole book smearing her to protect Clarence Thomas? Brian Ragle @vagabondvisions.bsky.social · Hey Bill, remember that time in the '90s when you ran the Project for the Republican Future and pumped out strategy memos urging Republicans to kill the Violence Against Women Act by calling it "radical feminist" government overreach? Brian Ragle @vagabondvisions.bsky.social Hey Bill, remember that time your magazine spent years railing against Title IX campus sexual assault reforms, calling real concerns about predatory frat culture "anti-male moral hysteria" and weeping over the due process of privileged men? Brian Ragle @vagabondvisions.bsky.social Hey Bill, remember that time in the '90s when your concern for women facing sexual misconduct was strictly limited to using Paula Jones to take down Bill Clinton, while giving every powerful conservative accused of the exact same thing a total pass?