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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I didn’t flick him and his buddies off my sleeve.
I scraped them off my shoe.
Flick the Washington Compost off the planet!
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.
Gorge Will is looking like that lone turd floating in a plugged toilet.
The Bush League wants you back on the plantation voting for amnesty candidates.
Don’t worry. . .all Freepers have authorization to steal!!!(I’m already stealing it!!)
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.
Will often inserts some obscure historical allusion in many of his pieces. He’s displaying his deep intellectual attributes.
George will forgot a brown paper bag over your bread helps with hyperventilating
Maybe Will and Kerry can run as the democratic party standard bearers in 2024, then America can flick them both off simultaneously. LOSER.
George Will, wrong again. Trump will be #47 !
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 !!!
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.
George Will is still alive?
It’s like a San Francisco Walgreens around here...lol
George Will - a cruster old booger that needs to be flicked off of media 🤪
SMUG !
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.
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.
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