Reports are coming in from across America today that people have started panic-buying food, water and weapons in preparation for the End Times. The reason for their terror is the revelation that Bill Kristol, the right-wing charlatan and 'pundit', may have actually once been right.
This is so bizarre, so odd, so contrary to the natural order of things that people are assuming that this is the end of life as we know it. Their consternation is understandable: Bill Kristol has never, ever been right about anything, ever.
But way back in 1992, Kristol wrote a memo to the GOP warning that the Clinton healthcare reforms would make the GOP look like assholes and make the Democrats look like the good guys. Wrote Kristol:
"But the long-term political effects of a successful Clinton health care bill will be even worse — much worse. It will relegitimize middle-class dependence for 'security' on government spending and regulation. It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government."
And,
mirabile dictu, it came to pass.
Obamacare is succeeding, to the chagrin of the GOP mouth-breathers. Republicans who want to repeal Obamacare look like spiteful assholes and the Democrats look like they're concerned with the welfare of the 99%.
God almighty, Bill fucking Kristol was right. Maybe it really is the end of the world.