His motivation is hard to discern at this point. Perhaps just preserving his ego or what must be left of it.
He is doubling down on a bad bet he made against Trump. I would think that he would step back at least until the train clears the tracks.
Same for Levin.
Kristol is a lost soul.
Levin must have lost a huge part of his audience right after he started launching Levin TV. At least he praised much of DT’s foreign policy speech.
It’s really hard for me to see why Shapiro would gladly dance to the tune played by MSNBC.