Talking “V” for vendetta, 77-year-old Washington Post columnist George Will showed he’s neither a Republican nor conservative, only an angry old man, urging voters to not vote for Republicans in the Midterm elections. Will’s recommendation is so preposterous, so self-serving, so transparent, that he can’t stomach the fact that the man he campaigned against, along with every major broadcast and print outlet, was voted in as president Nov. 8, 2016. Will ranted-and-raved against President Donald Trump, calling him a dangerous misfit. Calling Republicans Trump’s “poodles,” Will can’t face that he has zero clout with today’s Republicans or conservatives. Will’s columns appear in the ultraliberal Washington Post, a paper so biased against Trump it epitomizes what Trump calls “fake news.” Calling House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and GOP members of Congress Trump lapdogs shows Will’s bitterness.
Will’s vendetta started when Trump called him a “light-weight” in the 2016, when Will put his conservative credentials on the line attacking Trump. “The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control,” wrote will in his Post column. Yet the only thing “unimportant” are Will’s vitriolic remarks, no longer taken seriously by anyone in the GOP or conservative circles. Will can’t stand the fact that Trump’s exceeded expectations on the economy and in foreign policy, after signing tax reform Dec. 22, 2017 and meeting June 12 with North Korean dictator Kim Jon-un. Will called Trump a dangerous misfit who’d endanger the national security of the country—something that hasn’t happened.
Taking a cheap shot against Trump because of the border calamity, Will blames Congress for not passing immigration reform—utter nonsense. Trump’s decision to end family separations for illegal aliens intercepted at the border shows his swift responsiveness to the unintended consequence of enforcing the national’s border laws. It’s not Trump’s fault that the current system has thousands of illegal aliens streaming across the Mexican border. Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall was supposed to symbolically shore up the border but it’s doubtful it can stop the flow of refugees into the U.S. Whatever separations at the border, it was due to the fact that U.S. border laws haven’t been enforced until Trump took office. Will wants to see illegal aliens stream across the border with impunity, the same way it happened under former Presidents Bill Clinton, Bush-43 and Barack Obama.
Will calls Trump’s former and current advisers Stephen Miller and Cory Lewandowski “louts,” when the real boors stem from the anti-Trump media, of which Will’s a part. “Just as a magnet attracts iron fillings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts,” wrote Will. Will’s anti-Trump columns reflect no logic only pure vindictiveness along with the rest of the anti-Trump media. With aggregate polling showing that Republicans look to do well this fall, Will had to throw his two cents in, urging voters to toss out Republicans. Calling Democrats a “basket of deplorables,” Will urges voters to toss out Republicans, not for any rational reason but because they didn’t listen to George in 2016. Urging conservatives to toss out Republicans shows just how far Will has gone over the deep end. Will gives Trump zero credit for today’s thriving economy and recent peacemaking.
Unlike other conservatives that got over their hatred toward Trump after the 2016 election, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.), Will can’t get over the fact he has no clout with conservatives or the GOP. Writing columns for Will isn’t about changing public opinion but about venting his spleen, lashing out of pure vindictiveness. “In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream,” said Will, asking fellow conservatives to join his movement to sabotage Republicans in the fall. Will’s behavior is so far beyond the pale it’s not taken seriously by anyone other that the liberal press. Trump’s Democrat enemies and those in the press seek any-and-every opportunity to lash out at the president. Urging the GOP to vote against its own self-interest shows how far Will has gone unhinged.
Quoted widely in liberal circles taking cheap shots at Trump, Will’s exploited by the liberal press for their own agenda. Heading into the Midterms, Democrats and the press want to take over both house of Congress. With aggregate polling showing that it’s not happening, Will did his part to take down Republicans. “So, to vote against his [Trump’s] party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him,” said Will, back to his old argument that Trump’s is a dangerous menace in the White House. Will called Trump last year “the nation’s worst president,” showing George cares nothing about the economy, border security or foreign policy. Will’s the last one to give Trump any credit for meeting with Kim Jong-un to end the nuclear threat at the U.S. No, for George, it’s all about proving he’s right, not about the economy or U.S. national security.
