Bill Kristol can speak tongue-in-cheek about what he’ll do between now and November’s elections, however, he’s also looking to the future. “I’m going to cry a lot, drink a lot, lament a lot,” he joked in an interview. “I think there are some important arguments to be made, and for a conservative like me, there’s an argument to be made that Donald Trump is not the future of conservatism,” Kristol said in a more serious vein. “He’s not the recent history of conservatism actually. And there are other people worth supporting in the Senate, in the House, and at the governor’s level.” “But above all,” Kristol added, “I think the idea of making it clear that conservatism may have had a bad year in the sense that Trump hijacked the Republican Party and sells himself as a conservative but that’s not what the conservatism I care about is about.” Although still a political lifetime away, current national polling suggests Trump will lose to Hillary Clinton in November. As one of the most public faces of the NeverTrump movement, Kristol said he thinks conservatism can reinvent itself after the election, though he says it’s clearly a big task and a question.…
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