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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:21 AM Dec 2017

George Will: Trump is now the worst-ever president

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 12/14/17 08:56 AM EST

Washington Post columnist George Will said in a new op-ed that President Trump is now the nation's worst president.

Will, a conservative pundit who is often critical of Trump, ripped the president for supporting GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama, who faced sexual misconduct allegations. Will said Moore's actions as a public official "by themselves sufficed to disqualify him from any pubic office."

"He is an anti-constitutional recidivist, twice removed from Alabama’s highest court for his theocratic insistence that his religious convictions take precedence over U.S. Supreme Court decisions, so he could not have sincerely sworn to 'support and defend the Constitution' and to 'bear true faith and allegiance to the same,'" he wrote.

Will wrote that when Democrat Doug Jones defeated Moore in the Alabama Senate race on Tuesday, a "gross national embarrassment" was narrowly avoided.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/364857-george-will-trump-is-now-the-worst-ever-president

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George Will: Trump is now the worst-ever president (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
Another RW mouthpiece trying to salvage his career... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #1
While I Have For Many Years, Loathed Will... ProfessorGAC Dec 2017 #16
Now?!! Now?!! And let's not get crazy throwing around words like "president". nt Guy Whitey Corngood Dec 2017 #2
k and r...nt Stuart G Dec 2017 #3
To George Will - YOU helped to create Drumpf and Moore BumRushDaShow Dec 2017 #4
They weren't silent SHRED Dec 2017 #5
"Silent" BumRushDaShow Dec 2017 #8
True ...so true SHRED Dec 2017 #11
I imagine Trump trying to read this GusBob Dec 2017 #6
"I'm not actually all that quick a study on presidents and such" struggle4progress Dec 2017 #7
it took roy moore for them to realize this. Javaman Dec 2017 #9
Will's legacy is Trump. Dolt45 is the natural progression of Will's writing. Thor_MN Dec 2017 #10
Too bad George spent decades pushing the agenda that gave us Trump Orrex Dec 2017 #12
I would like to say "better late than never" but you Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #13
It took him a year to figure that one out? lpbk2713 Dec 2017 #14
duh bdamomma Dec 2017 #15
Now? Orsino Dec 2017 #17
I am surprised that I agree with George Will on this Gothmog Dec 2017 #18

ProfessorGAC

(65,069 posts)
16. While I Have For Many Years, Loathed Will...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:30 AM
Dec 2017

...as a sanctimonious, not as smart as he thinks is, two dimensional thinker, who merely studied a thesaurus, i'm going to disagree with you on this one Bear.

Will is closing in on retirement. He's never going to be worried about money, and he will still be able to write books about baseball until he dies.

I don't think he's trying to salvage anything here, other than the REASONED (but still wrong) conservative movement. I think he actually is appalled by the nationalistic, fear and hate mongering populism of this crowd.

If it were under any other circumstances, you and i would agree totally about him, though.

BumRushDaShow

(129,087 posts)
4. To George Will - YOU helped to create Drumpf and Moore
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:26 AM
Dec 2017

They are YOUR babies because over the past 30 years you sat silent as more and more lunatics took over your party.

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
5. They weren't silent
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:42 AM
Dec 2017

They pushed sexist and racist memes while actively bashing our government which provided the groundwork.

BumRushDaShow

(129,087 posts)
8. "Silent"
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:58 AM
Dec 2017

in terms of supporting any sanity and viability of their party... But yes, he, Krauthammer, Kristol, Safire and many others refused to call out the crazies and continued to spew the usual Nixon/Raygun anti-everything but enriching themselves bullshit.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
6. I imagine Trump trying to read this
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:51 AM
Dec 2017

anyone in the current White House actually. There are simply too many complicated words for them to understand.

And they will be happy in knowing their base is just as ignorant

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
9. it took roy moore for them to realize this.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:01 AM
Dec 2017

fine.

late to the party, but never the less, they finally got it through their pea brains.

 

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)
10. Will's legacy is Trump. Dolt45 is the natural progression of Will's writing.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:07 AM
Dec 2017

Trying to deny it when it has come to pass is futile.

Orrex

(63,215 posts)
12. Too bad George spent decades pushing the agenda that gave us Trump
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:19 AM
Dec 2017

If he had, you know, considered the ugly and inevitable result of the bullshit you were peddling, he could have saved himself the discomfort of recognizing Trump as the perfect crystallization of Republican thought.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)
13. I would like to say "better late than never" but you
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:21 AM
Dec 2017

deserve NO credit for now finding out this fact. You, sir, are a disgrace to America.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
17. Now?
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:36 AM
Dec 2017

Will is mighty slow on the uptake. Nothing in Trump's past suggests any talent for administration or leadership, and Will may be mistaking Trump's ignorance and laziness for "anti-constitutional recidivism." Trump isn't bad because of a particular governing philosophy. He's bad because he's a terrible, vindictive and petty person with no interest in governing.

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