MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
George Will has been a persistent anti-Trumper since 2016. Still, for the lifetime conservative pundit to urge voters to reject congressional Republicans in November is remarkable:
In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.
Comments
Wow.
There it is.
by moat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 5:52pm
ONLY TRUMP CAN FIX THE ARTICLES!! LET TRUMP BE TRUMP!!
by NCD on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 7:18pm
It's written in the height of GeorgeWillian style, too. Kinda makes me wanna cry something like: Oh, the humanity!
I went to wikipedia to see if I could find some appropriate baseball chant. Instead I find they have created for him a list of "Criticism of Republican politicians" to wit:
Not at all a bad record. He'd certainly get a "principled" label from me. Certainly not a "my party, right or wrong" kinda guy. What say the author of "Blowing Smoke"? Moderate-ish conservative?
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 8:38pm
I have long appreciated that Will has long called out the errors of his compatriots while others shaked the pom poms for the party or simply ignored the issues involved.
But George has also carried much water for the party. He has been a veritable Gunga Din when the matter has come down to who should have the upper hand in the branches of government.
For him to make this statement is a sharp departure from all that.
Very sharp.
by moat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 8:46pm
Good point and got me thinking about how his criticism of Dems and/or liberals has so often been all whine with no meat. And then some of his praise of St. Ronny, oh lordy talk about heeeero worship.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 9:34pm
Will will spin for his side but he sees himself as an intellectual. If the republican is smart and competent he will carry water for him. But Trump is ignorant and incompetent and Will can't go along with that.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 10:19pm
Robert Reich agrees with you, moat.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 1:09am
Just remembered that I posted he was saying this on Bill Maher a few days ago, in disagreement with Sen. Corker: George Will says Trump doesn’t inspire ‘cult’ in GOP: ‘This is fear’ FWIW The Hill's editor thought it was a big enough deal to assign an article.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 9:51pm
Will was talking about the party leaders, senators, and congress members. They're the ones who fear not Trump but Trump's voters. But Trump's voters, the base who always stand with him no matter what he does, are very much like a cult.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 10:22pm
Can we just stop considering those who once/then didn't/now do oppose Trump to be worth applause? Can we just stop forgetting who they were, like, yesterday?
by barefooted on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 11:43pm
I didn't post this to praise George Will but because it's a significant (and hopeful) development when prominent Republicans jump ship.
by Michael Wolraich on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 1:20am
How many Republicans still consider George Will to be a prominent member of their party?
I'll edit to add that I'm referring to those who support Trump, as well as those who have considered Will to be a turncoat for quite some time.
by barefooted on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 1:30am
He has also changed his voter registration to unaffiliated.
by Michael Wolraich on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 1:22am
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/23/2018 - 7:34pm
here ya go, Michael, it's a start:
‘We’ve crossed the Rubicon’: Toomey takes on Trump
The conservative senator is challenging the president — and his own party — in a bid to rein in Trump’s tariffs.
@ Politico.com, 06/25/2018 04:08 PM EDT
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 5:13pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/28/2018 - 11:01pm