Posted on 12/24/2015 7:41:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you look beyond Donald Trump’s comprehensive unpleasantness -- is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? -- you might see this: He is a fundamentally sad figure. His compulsive boasting is evidence of insecurity.
His unassuageable neediness suggests an aching hunger for others’ approval to ratify his self-admiration. His incessant announcements of his self-esteem indicate that he is not self-persuaded. Now, panting with a puppy's insatiable eagerness to be petted, Trump has reveled in the approval of Vladimir Putin, murderer and war criminal.
Putin slyly stirred America's politics by saying Trump is "very ... talented," adding that he welcomed Trump's promise of "closer, deeper relations," whatever that might mean, with Russia. Trump announced himself flattered to be "so nicely complimented" by a "highly respected" man: "When people call you brilliant, it's always good."
When MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Putin "kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries," Trump replied that "at least he's a leader." Besides, Trump breezily asserted, "I think our country does plenty of killing also."
Two days later, Trump, who rarely feigns judiciousness, said: "It has not been proven that he's killed reporters."
Well. Perhaps the 56 journalists murdered were coincidental victims of amazingly random violence that the former KGB operative's police state is powerless to stop. It has, however, been "proven," perhaps even to Trump's exacting standards, that Putin has dismembered Ukraine. (Counts one and two at the 1946 Nuremberg trials concerned conspiracy to wage, and waging, aggressive war.)
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What is DELICIOUS about George’s angst is with TRUMP,
WE WIN BACK THE PARTY!
Call it the REFORMATION of the GOVERNMENT. The socialists and neocons, be gone!
Let’s keep it this time.
“Conservative party”? Well, since the GOP (especially the establishment bulk) is not that, and Trump isn’t running as a candidate for any political party named “Conservative Party”, I’m left wondering what the pseudoconservative “amiable low-voltage atheist” is talking about.
I wonder if Will ever read “The Naked Communist”, especially the part where it says, “From a Marxist viewpoint, an atheistic mind is already three-fourths conquered.”
gooey02 -
Fool.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
What a fool!
George Will aspires to be Trump’s “Pussy Riot”.
I doubt a President Trump would pay him any mind.
He’s jailed by his own version of “conservatism”, and his character has been self-assassinated.
The GOP is no longer the party of Conservatives. They are the party of RINOS, dems in sheep’s clothing.
A few are true conservatives and they are shut out and run out by the elite blue blood RINOS like McCain and his ilk.
2 TERM LIMITS for congress with no house crossing, reduce senate to 4 years not 6. Cut perks, tie pay raises to SS, Ret Military pay raises and Military pay raises. The active duty got a miserly 1.3% pay raise, by the time they pay taxes on it and pay Champus for their families, they got NOTING.
Exactly right...
Inside the beltway and New York corridors, it’s all about how many invites to the select cocktail parties you get...
Screw the masses who pay for the whole ride, get thrown a bone if they’re lucky and are sneered at by the pundit class...
TRUMP is already the de facto president.
Just by running, he has lit a fire under the Left, caused fire and pillage to the Establishment and shaken up the world.
He is OUR tantrum, 24/7. For the love of God, leave him alone to keep on smoking the field all the way to the White House.
TRUMP, 2016
Who’d have thought G. Will would need to consult a dictionary or thesaurus to clarify, “conservative”? Idiot.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
I think it’s past time. People don’t understand that the downfall started with Lincoln. FDR made it worse.
Yes, and claiming that mantle gets them paychecks.
I wonder if they got $100 for every time they called Cantor or Ryan a conservative, maybe $500 for Boehner or McConnell?
Whatever the process, working to get the establishment powers conservative bona fides is how they’ve made their living.
My pleasure. . .I just graduated from the GOPe re-education camp and now know how wrong we all are. . .
What conservative party?
If George Will is a conservative I think that word does not mean what he thinks it means. :-)
George, you left the real Conservatives to be a Washington ahole years ago.
If you miss the REVOLUTION, it’s your own damn fault. Just stay out of our fox hole.
You and the Establishment are freaked out by TRUMP. THAT’s how it needs to be. We’re clearing out the brush.
You qualify.
TRUMP has been able to thin out the milquetoasts and keep smoking the field. Listen to the cries.
Squat and watch.....
TRUMP, 2016
This guy should do stand up.
faux snooze welcomes his type with open arms.
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