George Will: The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen
George Conway Retweeted"Dislike of [Trump] should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen." George Will doesn't write all that often on the president. When he does, he packs quite a wallop.
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The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen
By George F. Will
Columnist
January 18 at 5:09 PM
Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.
If the countrys condition is calibrated simply by economic data if, that is, the United States is nothing but an economy then the state of the union is good. Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Unless the president has forever banished business cycles if he has, his modesty would not have prevented him from mentioning it the next recession will begin with gargantuan deficits, which will be instructive.
The president has kept his promise not to address the unsustainable trajectory of the entitlement state (about the coming unpleasant reckoning, he said: Yeah, but I wont be here), and his partys congressional caucuses have elevated subservience to him into a political philosophy. The Republican-controlled Senate the worlds most overrated deliberative body will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
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Dislike of him should be tempered by this consideration: He is an almost inexpressibly sad specimen. It must be misery to awaken to another day of being Donald Trump. He seems to have as many friends as his pluperfect self-centeredness allows, and as he has earned in an entirely transactional life. His historical ignorance deprives him of the satisfaction of working in a house where much magnificent history has been made. His childlike ignorance preserved by a lifetime of single-minded self-promotion concerning governance and economics guarantees that whenever he must interact with experienced and accomplished people, he is as bewildered as a kindergartener at a seminar on string theory.
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George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977. Follow https://twitter.com/georgewill
shraby
(21,946 posts)have a way with words.
I really like the part that trump is as bewildered as a kindergartner at a seminar on string theory.
Lovely!!
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,527 posts)"you'll be raiding trash cans for aluminum cans you can sell by the pound."
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)"Conservative" is not not necessarily "wingnut".
SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)The Republican-controlled Senate the worlds most overrated deliberative body will not deliberate about, much less pass, legislation the president does not favor. The evident theory is that it would be lèse-majesté for the Senate to express independent judgments.
Me...very descriptive and accurate.
ProfessorPlum
(11,258 posts)He's the asshole who stole Carter's notes about the Democratic debate preparation, used those notes to prepare Reagan for the debate, and then sat on TV and crowed about what a great job Reagan did in the debate. Without ever telling anyone his roll in it.
He's been paving the way for money-fueled fascism for 40 years. This is what you get, asshole.
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)I wrote him once and he said there was no French Resistance in WWII.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)This is the guy who whined about term limits when the democrats were in power, and got quite mum about it when his party took control. Big deficit cry-baby, except when Cheney said deficits no longer matter. I don't care for, nor do I respect George Will one bit. An enemy of my enemy ain't automatically my friend. He's part of the republican party apparatchik that brought us Reagan, two Bushes and this idiot - let's not forget that fact.
BigmanPigman
(51,613 posts)He is essentially an unchanged GOP ass and hypocrite. When he wrote for Newsweek I avoided his BS column. When he is on the news I change the channel ASAP!
ProfessorPlum
(11,258 posts)my apologies
SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)but like monkeys at a keyboard, they sometimes type something in that makes sense!
Take care!!
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Hell I suspect many kindergarteners would be less bewildered in that situation than Trump.
Gothmog
(145,375 posts)Yeehah
(4,588 posts)who helped pave the way for an imbecile like Trump to become president.