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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: lowbridge
Always be careful what you wish for George.

Fox News thought they were doing everyone a favor by (illegallly) pushing Biden/Harris over the finish line. Look where that got the world. Not that it changes their world any.

161 posted on 03/05/2022 7:08:10 PM PST by lewislynn ( Are the Murdochs citizens,natural born or otherwise? Ruperet Murdoch is Australian.)
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To: lowbridge

George Will. A true assistant Democrat, fake Conservative, bowtie, inside-the-Beltway NWO pawn.

Who reads WaPo but government employees and Liberals?

This is just another projection and gaslighting attempt to appease the cheating Democrats and spew his unfiltered jealous and hatred of you and me...which is Trump personified.

Trump = FReeper
Trump = American
Trump represents what the Establishment hates


162 posted on 03/05/2022 7:48:29 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The mind of an 80-year old RINO who knows his buddy Biden was a fraud and corrupt bastard for 50+ years, including his ties to Russia, China and Ukraine....and he goes of on some pseudo literary reference to somehow out Victor Davis Hanson in honestly and relevance.

He and Jennifer Rubin are as much our enemies as Biden, Hillary, Pelosi or Obama.


163 posted on 03/05/2022 7:53:45 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: MinuteGal; M Kehoe

George Will and Charles Krauthammer (now deceased; was commentator on Fox) were best friends.


164 posted on 03/05/2022 8:43:10 PM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: lowbridge

Pathetic


165 posted on 03/05/2022 9:15:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: rhinohunter

Despicable! I see that George is now only friends with tyrants.


166 posted on 03/05/2022 9:50:44 PM PST by Saint Athanasius ("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Scarlett156

George Will is a has been and in May he will be 81..

age does matter...and he is aged...


167 posted on 03/05/2022 10:19:49 PM PST by haircutter
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To: haircutter

He might want to discover God fairly soon, he is a proud atheist.


168 posted on 03/05/2022 10:25:16 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lasereye

Well, deep something.


169 posted on 03/06/2022 8:11:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Saint Athanasius

He must have joined the National Council of Churches.


170 posted on 03/06/2022 8:30:31 AM PST by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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