The Bulwark Podcast Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal
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Dec 1, 2025 
In this discussion, Bill Kristol, a renowned political analyst and neoconservative thinker, dives into the unsettling impacts of Trump's policies on immigration and foreign relations. He reveals how personal financial motives may skew foreign policy, with surprising clemency decisions igniting controversy. The duo tackles recent Border Patrol deployments in New Orleans and highlights the harrowing local consequences. Kristol warns of systemic corruption threatening democratic norms, asserting civic action is crucial to curbing aggressive enforcement practices.
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Immigration Enforcement Becoming Persistent Crisis
- The administration's immigration operations are escalating into sustained, lawless campaigns across cities.
- Bill Kristol warns Congress can and should impose rules to stop ICE and Border Patrol abuses now.
Deportation Despite Court Order
- Tim Miller recounts Lucia Belosa, deported despite a judge's order blocking removal back to Honduras.
- Her case illustrates the administration's willingness to deport long-resident immigrants illegally and callously.
Re-Migration As Ethnic Cleansing Rhetoric
- 'Re-migration' signals an agenda to remove millions including legal residents and citizens' families.
- Kristol calls this rhetoric grotesque, racially coded, and anti-American in aim and effect.
