Posted on 03/05/2022 1:10:05 PM PST by lowbridge
Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve. His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his party’s selection of candidates for state and federal offices. This is, however, perilous because he has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.
So, Trump must try to emulate the protagonist of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” In Mark Twain’s novel, a 19th-century American is transported back in time to Britain in the year 528. He gets in trouble, is condemned to death, but remembers that a solar eclipse occurred on the date of his scheduled execution. He saves himself by vowing to extinguish the sun but promising to let it shine again if his demands are met.
Trump is faltering at the business of commanding outcomes that are, like Twain’s eclipse, independent of his interventions. Consider the dilemma of David Perdue.
He is a former Republican senator because Trump, harping on the cosmic injustice of his November loss in 2020, confused and demoralized Georgia Republicans enough to cause Perdue’s defeat by 1.2 percentage points in the January 2021 runoff. Nevertheless, Trump talked Perdue into running in this year’s gubernatorial primary against Georgia’s Republican incumbent, Brian Kemp, whom Trump loathes because Kemp spurned Trump’s demand that Georgia’s presidential vote be delegitimized. In a February poll, Kemp led Perdue by 10 points.
Trump failed in his attempt to boost his preferred Senate candidate in North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, by pressuring a rival out of the race. As of mid-January, Budd was trailing in the polls.
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Will lost all influence with real conservatives a long time ago. He has just become another useful idiot for Rhinos and democrats.
George Will?
The guy who worked so hard to put Biden in the White House?
And he still cowers In fear of Donald Trum?
George Will just wants more face time on ABCPBSPNBCNN.
Trashing true conservatives assures that Mr. Will remains in good standing with the Beltway cocktail circuit.
Leni
What an idiot!!!
And OVERT the sucking-up to the liberal media establishment. I mean, he didn’t have to come up with anything. He just said what he knew would get him a pat on the head.
George Will a second rate journalist who has nothing to offer.
I thought he was in a home. 😆
who is george will??????????????????
Yeah that’s why all 33 candidates he supported won in Texas last week
He is hated by 90% of Republicans at least and the only reason its fun to mention him is to just mock and ridicule him. When Trump returns I hope this swamp rat is still alive to see it.
Trying hard to live up to their nickname “compost”
Geez...like so many in the political world who are very old and very rich and could be doing so many family-oriented things in their twilight years, this guy won’t stop with the partisan politics. Not even if he lives to be 100.
Yeah that’s why all 33 candidates he supported won in Texas last week
And how he knocked 17 RINOs out of the 2016 Presidential primary.
I used to watch Fox News Sunday a long time ago, but I gave it up to avoid having to see that nasty bitch’s Trump hatred.
GFY, George.
You’re the one who’s going to be flicked.
L
Who’s his pick in Georgia?
George Will needs to look out his window and see the Trump Freedom Convoy.
George Will is a total PUTZ
LOL - that image won’t readily be unseen
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