Krauthammer has a consistent pattern: espouse and endorse a kind of lofty, cerebral moderation until all facts render the position completely untenable.
Then retrench, reconfigure and pronounce from on high his own version of what has been painfully obvious to others all along, rather in the manner of a canonical dispensation.
LOL!
You hit it spot on.
Oooooh, beautifully said! I wish I had said that!