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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hairist!
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 !
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.
Well shoot. It’s an excerpt, and I think WaPoo is behind a paywall. Now I’ll never know the rest of his insights.
Ah, George Will. He will always be nothing more than a batboy.
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?
I was going to come up with a snide remark. . but, I knew I couldn't top this one!!! Bbbwwwwaaaahaw haw haw
A pack of lies.
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.
George Will - still outgassing vapid pedantry.
George Will? He was old and spewing stuff when I was a teenager. He’s still around?
Lol George Wont needs to turn on Right Side in one week. He may want to revise his oh-so-wise opinion.
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!
And George Will is a dingleberry waiting to be plucked from the...well, you know.
George Will should change his last name to “Cannot”.
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.
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?
Trump(and the rest of us)are finding out what happens when you shine a light on the globohomo rat nest.
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