Recently, Bill Kristol took to Twitter to make it clear that Trump's Supreme Court pick will be “a product of the intellectual, educational, and organizational efforts of serious conservatives in recent decades,” and not a “product of what Trumpism could produce.” The goal here is to deny the president credit for his Supreme Court pick, which most agree is likely to be a solid conservative that constitutional originalists will be happy to support.
In a sense, Kristol is correct. Trump will have a good deal of assistance from astute conservative legal minds in making his pick. But at this point of Trump's presidency, comments like Kristol's serve less to inform the debate and more to confirm the worst assumptions of the president's most ardent supporters.
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