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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Complete wishful thinking. Donald Trump will 100% be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024 if he runs. George Will and anyone else that angers can seethe about it forever.
President Trump lives in Wee Willie Wanker’s head rent-free.
Is that effete little pissant still around?
Damn! I thought George will was dead. Now here he is trying to sound like a Republicrat again.
The compost squeaked out methane.
In other news...
There is nothing new under the sun
...that is all
George Will needs to go back to baseball where he sucked only marginally less…
This is embarrassingly childish of both GW and the WP, but not unexpected.
WaPo hopes and dreams.
I thought he was dead.
Is that why President Trump easily won the CPAC straw poll for 2024 nomination?
Hey George Swill: Flick off yourself.
Floundering in his attempt to wield political power? Hey Georgette? Whose endorsements just swept Texas?
What a big dork, why did they drag him out to bash Trump in the WP? Tomorrow it will be Bill Kristol.
George cannot see that Trump was right about NATO, right about buying gas from Russia, right about Iran, right about China and right about Biden’s incompetence.
No, poor George is so filled with hate for conservatism that he does the dirty work of communists.
Oh look, every leftist’s favorite nerdy, unthreatened pet RINO George Will.....complete with little prissy bowtie.
They’re scared. They know he’s coming back and they are freaking out.
Washington Compost strikes again.
Trump is the king maker. Lonesome George is a has been.
Maybe Will and Kerry can run as the democratic party standard bearers in 2024, then America can flick them both off simultaneously. LOSER.
I hadn’t read anything from Will in a while. I haven’t missed him. A yapping dog that is a product of way too much in-breeding.
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