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Saturday May 06, 2017

The Failure of the Will

George Will talks the talk. In a WaPost column this week, much shared on social media, he slams our current president out of the gate:

It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump's inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

It's good stuff. What it doesn't include? Any kind of mea culpa from Will for supporting a Republican party that for decades pushed massive anti-intellectualism and a bullying stupidity over the airwaves and into our homes and eventually into Congress, the Supreme Court and now the White House. The trifecta. At any point, did Will question this? Wonder why he's on the same side as Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity? How about Andrew Breitbart, Steve Bannon, Lucian Wintrich?

He renounces Trump. That's easy. Is he ready to renounce the GOP that made him?

Posted at 07:19 AM on Saturday May 06, 2017 in category Politics