You are probably right. I’m just sensing a desperation here like it was almost life and death important to Kristol. Very strange...
It is weird - almost like pathological jealousy.
Considering that he made his magazine-a large source of his income-look like a joke with his anti-Trump tantrums, cratering the readership-he is such an egotistical and sanctimonious prick that he probably does think of it as important as life and death-of his relevance and his magazine, at any rate...