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George Will: Trump must be removed

PorkchopBob · 2020-06-03T10:57:31Z

Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers. By George F. Will Columnist June 1, 2020 at 3:18 p.m. EDT This unraveling presidency began with the Crybaby-in-Chief banging his spoon on his highchair tray to protest a photograph — a photograph — showing that his inauguration crowd the day before had been smaller than the one four years previous. Since then, this weak person’s idea of a strong person, this chest-pounding advertisement of his own gnawing insecurities, this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron. Presidents, exploiting modern communications technologies and abetted today by journalists preening as the “resistance” — like members of the French Resistance 1940-1944, minus the bravery — can set the tone of American society, which is regrettably soft wax on which presidents leave their marks. The president’s provocations — his coarsening of public discourse that lowers the threshold for acting out by people as mentally crippled as he — do not excuse the violent few. They must be punished. He must be removed. Social causation is difficult to demonstrate, particularly between one person’s words and other persons’ deeds. However: The person voters hired in 2016 to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” stood on July 28, 2017, in front of uniformed police and urged them “please don’t be too nice” when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement. What Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed “defining deviancy down” now defines American politics. In 2016, voters were presented an unprecedentedly unpalatable choice: Never had both major parties offered nominees with higher disapproval than approval numbers. Voters chose what they wagered would be the lesser blight. Now, however, they have watched him govern for 40 months and more than 40 percent — slightly less than the percentage that voted for him — approve of his sordid conduct. Presidents seeking reelection bask in chants of “Four more years!” This year, however, most Americans — perhaps because they are, as the president predicted, weary from all the winning — might flinch: Four more years of this? The taste of ashes, metaphorical and now literal, dampens enthusiasm. The nation’s downward spiral into acrimony and sporadic anarchy has had many causes much larger than the small man who is the great exacerbator of them. Most of the causes predate his presidency, and most will survive its January terminus. The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal. One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear “magically,” as Eric Trump said the coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting. In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days. We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body. A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated: We are the hollow men Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass or rats’ feet over broken glass Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.

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adhill58

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Yeah, because what’s going on right now is simply awesome.

And this is because perceived racism in Law Enforcement is the President's fault?

It is not "perceived racism". It is racism. It might make you uncomfortable to admit that a racist society has allowed racist cops to kill black people without punishment, but that doesn't mean that's not what has been going on. Not being able to admit that there is a problem is part of the problem.

I realize you had previously posted, "Of course it exists and that is sad, but you can't blame everything on that," which is basically saying that it's not a problem. It may not be a problem FOR YOU or TO YOU, but it sure as hell is a problem. Three hundred years of wishing racism away by "good-hearted" white people hasn't really made it go away.

Posted : June 4, 2020 12:23 pm

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You have to admit that this year's election does not present much of a choice...

Speak for your damn self.

How anybody can put a checkmark next to Drumpf’s name is beyond reason.

Fair enough to you. Count me among those who feel Joe Biden is the worst thing that can happen to this country...

So Biden is worse than trump in your mind?. 😛

They are equally bad as human beings with the added negative being Biden is a Democrat.

Posted : June 4, 2020 12:43 pm

BIGV

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You have to admit that this year's election does not present much of a choice...

Speak for your damn self.

How anybody can put a checkmark next to Drumpf’s name is beyond reason.

Fair enough to you. Count me among those who feel Joe Biden is the worst thing that can happen to this country...

So Biden is worse than trump in your mind?. 😛

They are equally bad as human beings with the added negative being Biden is a Democrat.

Wow, what bullsh!t. critical thinking just aint your thing I guess.

Exactly how much "critical thinking" went into this brilliant response of yours? I disagree with your view on the effect of democratic policies and that......is just not an acceptable answer!!!

Deal with it.

Posted : June 4, 2020 2:44 pm

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Exactly how much "critical thinking" went into this brilliant response of yours? I disagree with your view on the effect of democratic policies and that......is just not an acceptable answer!!!

Deal with it.

It's kind of cute how members of Cult 45 still think Trump is a Republican.

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Posted : June 4, 2020 2:48 pm

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Exactly how much "critical thinking" went into this brilliant response of yours? I disagree with your view on the effect of democratic policies and that......is just not an acceptable answer!!!

Deal with it.

It's kind of cute how members of Cult 45 still think Trump is a Republican.

This is what the cult & those who voted for and will vote for another 4 years support. A true American patriot. The guy who wraps himself in our flag, but trashes black football players for not being patriotic.

Posted : June 4, 2020 3:40 pm

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