Washington, DC
A few weeks ago, I attended the 40th gala dinner of a Washington think tank called the Ethics and Public Policy Center at the St Regis Hotel, just down the street from the White House. William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and unrepentant champion of the Iraq War, was the MC and Paul Ryan, -Speaker of the House, the star guest. Kristol began by noting that Donald Trump had referred to him in various tweets as ‘dopey’, the editor of a ‘slightly failing magazine’ and ‘very embarrassed to walk down the street’ because of his failure to endorse Trump. Kristol joked: ‘It’s been a tough two or three months of rehabilitation for me.’ After the audience finished laughing, he added: ‘This should be a Trump-free evening so that’s enough Trump.’ Actually, it wasn’t. Like a group of White Russians after the Bolshevik revolution, the assembled neocon stalwarts could not avoid the spectre of their tormenter.
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