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Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve
Washington Post ^ | March 4, 2022 | George Will

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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To: FlingWingFlyer

I didn’t flick him and his buddies off my sleeve.

I scraped them off my shoe.


141 posted on 03/05/2022 3:17:41 PM PST by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: lowbridge
Columnist Anti-Trumpr George Will strikes again....


142 posted on 03/05/2022 3:20:33 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: lowbridge

Flick the Washington Compost off the planet!


143 posted on 03/05/2022 3:46:34 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Scarlett156

Well, since the baseballers are on strike, or locked out, or whatever, he thought he’d try politics for a change. Better stick to baseball Georgie boy.


144 posted on 03/05/2022 3:51:49 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: lowbridge

Gorge Will is looking like that lone turd floating in a plugged toilet.


145 posted on 03/05/2022 4:02:59 PM PST by Beagle8U ("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reid is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
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To: lowbridge

The Bush League wants you back on the plantation voting for amnesty candidates.


146 posted on 03/05/2022 4:14:07 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Don’t worry. . .all Freepers have authorization to steal!!!(I’m already stealing it!!)


147 posted on 03/05/2022 4:15:30 PM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I’m taking it he wasn’t even good at that? Even though I’d rather he talk about that than anything important in society since he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in a ground when it comes to anything politics related these days.


148 posted on 03/05/2022 4:17:09 PM PST by Perhaps Today
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To: Red in Blue PA

Will often inserts some obscure historical allusion in many of his pieces. He’s displaying his deep intellectual attributes.


149 posted on 03/05/2022 4:23:37 PM PST by lasereye
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To: lowbridge

George will forgot a brown paper bag over your bread helps with hyperventilating


150 posted on 03/05/2022 4:23:46 PM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: OKSooner

Maybe Will and Kerry can run as the democratic party standard bearers in 2024, then America can flick them both off simultaneously. LOSER.


151 posted on 03/05/2022 4:27:42 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: lowbridge

George Will, wrong again. Trump will be #47 !


152 posted on 03/05/2022 4:27:51 PM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: lowbridge

Will is an idiot,

President Donald J Trump was and will be the president AGAIN. George WILL WILL NOT even be a footnote in history.

MAGA !!!


153 posted on 03/05/2022 4:30:44 PM PST by Pearfect (t)
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To: lowbridge
Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve

It's quite OBVIOUS they are still scared $HITLESS that Trump will get back in. So much so that they are, to this day, still working overtime trying to diminish and demean him.

154 posted on 03/05/2022 4:37:50 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Scarlett156

George Will is still alive?


155 posted on 03/05/2022 4:44:55 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: McBuff

It’s like a San Francisco Walgreens around here...lol


156 posted on 03/05/2022 4:48:51 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: lowbridge

George Will - a cruster old booger that needs to be flicked off of media 🤪


157 posted on 03/05/2022 5:10:55 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: lowbridge
George Will is the walking, talking, breathing definition of

SMUG !

158 posted on 03/05/2022 5:14:31 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: lowbridge

Wiki:

George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC.

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Just so you know, ZERO real conservatives write regularly for trash propagandists like WP, NBC and MSNBC.


159 posted on 03/05/2022 6:05:31 PM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: mass55th

In a Trump/Putin/afganistan/inflation/covid/lawbreaking world. Talk about being disconnected. Give it up George. No more nice talk to the modern Dems. Tip O’Neill is gone.


160 posted on 03/05/2022 6:09:05 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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