I have an interesting story up at Responsible Statecraft inspired in part by that delicious debate between Scott Horton and Bill Kristol. Jack Hunter picks up on Scott's charges that Kristol, Liz Cheney, et all (all never-Trumpers today) were responsible in part for the Islamophobia and demagoguery in the GOP and across the right wing from 9/11-on, as well as Trump's earliest successes as a candidate. He traces the thread and holds the neocons to task here:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/11/01/never-trumper-neocons-were-hardly-strangers-to-inciting-mobs/