Kristol and The Bulwark cast of clowns have been finished since 2018. All they are capable of doing now is making noise. No one is paying any attention to them.
Steve Bannon Interview with RSBN at Turning Point Action Conference 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida
https://rumble.com/v308yow-steve-bannon-interview-with-rsbn-at-actcon-2023-day-1.html
In typical fashion, the NY State Republican establishment for the most part rejected Trump. Not “one of us.” Biggest snobs in the world. And those hangers-on and wannabes who have to always adopt the next fashion have gone along with the money crowd.
Now they are floundering to find another nonwinner since DeSantis is turning out to be such a dud. But since they are not really looking for a candidate but only trying to defeat one, the project is bound to fail.