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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

Hairist!


61 posted on 03/05/2022 1:27:10 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: lowbridge
Here George, that me fix that lie for you:

confused and demoralized Georgia Republicans were defrauded enough to cause Perdue’s defeat by 1.2 percentage points

Then multiply that theft by a few million and now we're subjected to an utter laughingstock making, yet again, a mockery of our White House.

TRUMP WON, you seditious bastards !

62 posted on 03/05/2022 1:27:24 PM PST by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR )
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To: lowbridge

Will is full of crap. Perdue lost because he sucks as a RINO candidate.

And it’s clear Will is an establishment GOPe. They were in on the steal.


63 posted on 03/05/2022 1:28:59 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: lowbridge

Well shoot. It’s an excerpt, and I think WaPoo is behind a paywall. Now I’ll never know the rest of his insights.


64 posted on 03/05/2022 1:31:06 PM PST by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: lowbridge
"That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive."

I thought more than 30 "Trump candidates" won in their primaries.
65 posted on 03/05/2022 1:31:19 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: lowbridge

Ah, George Will. He will always be nothing more than a batboy.


66 posted on 03/05/2022 1:32:01 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Scarlett156

Trump is huge politically and the George Will’s of this world can’t stand it. There may be some misses during 2022 midterms but that does not take away from Trumps over all power and they know it. How long did it take George Will to come up with that clever “orange hair to brush off” line? What is he? A petulant 20 year old college kid going for an A from some goofy liberal professor?


67 posted on 03/05/2022 1:32:08 PM PST by Dingolingo888 (Hillary knew?)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
Uh oh. George Will has sand in his vagina again.

I was going to come up with a snide remark. . but, I knew I couldn't top this one!!! Bbbwwwwaaaahaw haw haw

68 posted on 03/05/2022 1:32:44 PM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: lowbridge

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llWwvlymAwk


69 posted on 03/05/2022 1:32:46 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: lowbridge

A pack of lies.


70 posted on 03/05/2022 1:33:38 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Do_Tar

George Will is always talking about Trump’s hair. I wonder if it has anything to do with his head having an ill-fitting, greasy-looking toupee.


71 posted on 03/05/2022 1:33:56 PM PST by laconic
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To: lowbridge

George Will - still outgassing vapid pedantry.


72 posted on 03/05/2022 1:34:23 PM PST by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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To: lowbridge

George Will? He was old and spewing stuff when I was a teenager. He’s still around?


73 posted on 03/05/2022 1:34:38 PM PST by Allegra
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To: lowbridge

Lol George Wont needs to turn on Right Side in one week. He may want to revise his oh-so-wise opinion.


74 posted on 03/05/2022 1:34:39 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Maranatha)
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To: lowbridge

The TDS is pretty strong with the bowtied sissy. He misses the country club Republican Party that he and his ilk used to control! Sorry George. That ship has sailed!


75 posted on 03/05/2022 1:35:11 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: lowbridge

And George Will is a dingleberry waiting to be plucked from the...well, you know.


76 posted on 03/05/2022 1:35:18 PM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: lowbridge

George Will should change his last name to “Cannot”.


77 posted on 03/05/2022 1:35:46 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: lowbridge

Divert the eyes of the world off of Biden who is struggeling to find revalence in the office of the presidency.

Hey George, “whose coattails do you want, e.g., the DNC, GOPe or Trump. Trump was 33 - 0 two weeks ago in Texas.

All the kings men couldn’t put the DNC back back together again.


78 posted on 03/05/2022 1:36:15 PM PST by Jumper
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To: lowbridge

Georgie Will has a stray pubic hair that got flipped on his lip when he was orally satisfying a young male prostitute.

You think he knows I know he is gay?


79 posted on 03/05/2022 1:36:52 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: lowbridge

Trump(and the rest of us)are finding out what happens when you shine a light on the globohomo rat nest.


80 posted on 03/05/2022 1:37:11 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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