... he's more authentic than the typical Republican in that his positions are the same but he doesn't use dog-whistle language to obfuscate them.

...in exactly the same way that Bernie Sanders is.

I wouldn't expect someone like George Will to understand that at all.

I think his name should read...
F. George Will
not George F. Will

"He is an affront to anyone devoted to the project William F. Buckley began six decades ago with the founding in 1955 of the National Review — making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically palatable."

The current crop of "conservatives" is so far out there I doubt Buckley would be too enthused about them either.

changing into whatever is selling and saying he has or is the best.

Fox and the R party has set up a bunch of people who want race hate and misogyny and bullies and bumper sticker thoughts. And here comes the Donald selling what they want and claiming he is the best and has a long history of it.

And Will can't recognize it because he is still stuck on Goldwater.

That's what happens when the intellectual pixie-dust paint job afforded for a few decades by preening assholes like Buckley finally wears off, revealing the same old rusty Greedmobile underneath.

It's also what happens when politics as Two Minutes Hate for the rest of 'Murca just gets getting bigger and louder and longer, until it swells to encompass all that remains of conservative "philosophy".

as long as he continues to suck all the air out of the repug campaign.

T Rump is the epitome of latter-day Republicanism, and is the current acme of what William F. Buckley and his racist periodical wanted to see in the public arena: A Republican politician who unabashedly and unashamedly espoused the fear, the anger and the hostility of conservatives to the radical notion that all citizens should enjoy the blessings of liberty that Buckley, Will, and T Rump take as their birthright.

If you don't like how the recipe has turned out, you and your ilk have been the cooks who decided on the ingredients. Don't blame the soup for being unpalatable.

Fuck off George. Your gang made this mess.