Barnes is trying desperately to salvage some credibility by trying, ever so gingerly, to distance himself sightly from the magazine’s owner Bill Kristol. Kristoll is still out casting about for a third party candidate. The bulk of its contributing writers are still, like Kristol, still in the “never Trump” camp. I’ve written them off.
Then there is Steve what’s his name.
Now that the primary is over and the heated discussion is over, Steve was allowed to return to Brett’s panel to provide thoughts on other subjects than the magazine’s anti trump party line.