George Will is a highly educated person...and, simultaneously, an utterly self-absorbed idiot.
Will professes to want what most conservatives want and, in fact, was a leader in putting such ideas into the minds of many people over the decades. He favored such things as originalist judicial nominees, a strong military, less spending by government, lower taxes...we all know the drill. He also doesn’t like it when people rock the boat and act impolitely, because...rules.
Well, now comes along one Donald John Trump. He’s no conservative, and Will knows it and doesn’t like it. Neither is he a politician - he’s a lowly (though very successful) businessman and (gasp!) a purveyor of reality shows. More importantly to Will above all else (including politics), he doesn’t like how direct Trump is...because only “sophisticated” and “nuanced” people (like him) deserve to be in positions of power - people like John Kerry, even if Kerry undercuts American power and prosperity with every utterance and every vote they cast.
Except something happened on the trip from Will’s ideal world that (maybe) existed decades ago to now...the “sophisticated” and “nuanced” Republicans turned into a bunch of Big Government toadies, promising their constituents Republican and conservative things, but actually delivering Democrat and liberal things (oh, and just coincidentally, getting quite wealthy in the process). And this guy Trump - the one who isn’t sufficiently pure ideologically, and who is (in Will’s elitist mind) a bit of a buffoon - well, it turns out that not only his promises, but his actions in actually fulfilling those promises, are at least as conservative as those of Ronald Reagan, and perhaps more so. We have an originalist Supreme Court justice, literally dozens of new originalist/conservative Circuit Court judges, we have the largest tax cut in history - one so massive that it is drawing back literally hundreds of billions of previously untaxed earnings into the US, generating both revenue and new jobs. In addition, we have the single most massive cut in regulations in history (in just 15 1/2 months), with emphasis on boosting our energy independence by utilizing the incredibly massive oil, natural gas and coal resources with which we’ve been blessed. We have a Reaganesque military build-up which, coupled with an assertively pro-American foreign policy that has already forced North Korea to the negotiating table (which hasn’t been done since Ike privately threatened to nuke their asses the rest of the way back to the Stone Age if they didn’t release our POWs), and even has the ball-less Europeans kicking in more of their wealth for their own defense.
This list of pro-American and conservative accomplishments goes on and on - and the bottom line is that Trump is, from a policy perspective, doing pretty much everything that George Will ever advised, or even had a wet dream about...and despite these actual facts on the ground, Will simply cannot even give Trump a grudging or back-handed complement because...he’s not good enough, he’s not polite enough, he’s not “sophisticated” or “nuanced” enough - in short, he’s not an elitist prick like Will. So the spoiled little baby, who’s been pretty much left uninvited to those parties with all of the powerful people in the country, has to throw his tantrum. Well, guess what, George: we’re on to your games. You were once among the most admired columnists and authors out there, especially during the Reagan era, but you never moved on. People like you are EXACTLY why we got Trump - because your elitist snobbery, coupled with your obvious need to be part of the so-called ruling class, made you AND most Republican office holders into objects of hatred and contempt because you all lied to us in order to get what you REALLY wanted - power, money and recognition. After 77 years, it is way past time for you to hang up your cleats, George. Go home, enjoy your family during your remaining years, take in a few baseball games around the country...and watch Donald J. Trump do what no politician has done in a LONG time - actually do the bidding of the American people, not the big campaign contributors nor the elitist snobs like yourself. In short, just go away.
Bravo! Fantastic post.
Oh my gosh, your entire post is so good. Right on. Here is your money line above.