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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Despise George Will.
Ha! Gosh, he’s unpopular here.
Keep dreaming George.
Who’s working on fixing MLB, Mr. Bowtie?
George Will can FOAD.
The swamp never gives up.
George Will is a commie stooge who likes baseball.
George Will is a stray dingleberry.
More to the point, they and he are like a booger on a finger of the US body politic.
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.
Yeah, it’s just like that/s
What a moron.
Will and his cronies have no pride at all. They’re always broadcasting their extreme jealousy of PDJT. They’re pathetic.
Ha, ha, ha. George Will is looking like the stain on Monica’s dress.
Gee is he still alive?
The one millionth pronouncement of 45’s political demise lol
sWill is a DemoVagina - one of most dedicated of the Assistant Democrats.
Wow - everytime I think they can’t get to a new low they auger in...
These were our “top” conservative thinkers. It says a lot about why we’re in the perilous situation we’re in now in this country.
BTW, still waiting for George Will to make statements about communist BLM and marxist thought being ramrodded into us across all corporations and schools.
And still irrelevant!
Conservatism has long past him by and he still doesn't know it!
His analysis doesn’t seem to be connected to anything in reality.
George Will is the flickee.
Ahahaha....Trump lives in your brain Georgie porgie. Ever since he flicked you and your RINO buds into irrelevance years ago. Which is why you’re still obsessed with him.
Must piss you off to no end knowing he still leads among all in the GOP for 2024. And I know you’re reading this too.....Now back to irrelevance.....bud.
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