George Will Rips President Trump In A Snobby Op-Ed, And I Have Some Thoughts

George Will used to be a highly respected Republican columnist. I remember interning in DC and people in the industry using George Will as the shining standard. They would say stuff like, “You can’t just expect to start writing and be as good as George Will” or “Someday if you want to be like George Will…”

It was almost like he was the unsaid industry standard.

Those days or over. TDS has consumed his system.

In May 2018, he blasted Vice President Mike Pence in an angry op-ed. He essentially called Pence a submissive, greasy, butt-kissing pig man. About a month later, he wrote another  angry op-ed, encouraging everyone to vote AGAINST Republicans in the mid-term elections in order to “quarantine” Trump. As I wrote before:

In other words, George Will is too big of a freaking baby to put his country over his personal distaste for President Trump’s personality. He doesn’t want him to get anything done.

That’s what TDS does to you.

All of his big op-eds have been dripping with intellectual snobbery. His latest piece is no different. The title is “The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen.”

He’s a pro at using excessive adjectives to make his arguments– which are weak at best– sound more distinguished and profound. His title is REALLY “POTUS is a sad, ’cause I don’t like him.”

He begins:

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 country’s 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.

He even tried to dunk on the insufferable media, which is awkward because in doing do, he dunked on himself.

By his comportment, the president benefits his media detractors with serial vindications of their disparagements. They, however, have sunk to his level of insufferable self-satisfaction by preening about their superiority to someone they consider morally horrifying and intellectually cretinous. For most Americans, President Trump’s expostulations are audible wallpaper, always there but not really noticed. Still, the ubiquity of his outpourings in the media’s outpourings gives American life its current claustrophobic feel. This results from many journalists considering him an excuse for a four-year sabbatical from thinking about anything other than the shiny thing that mesmerizes them by dangling himself in front of them.

But here’s the most fascinating part of his piece. Will basically tells the world how he handles his severe case of TDS. He thinks about how much it must suck to be Trump. I mean, imagine what it’s like to wake up every single morning and hating yourself.

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.

Which is why this fountain of self-refuting boasts (“I have a very good brain”) lies so much. He does so less to deceive anyone than to reassure himself. And as balm for his base, which remains oblivious to his likely contempt for them as sheep who can be effortlessly gulled by preposterous fictions. The tungsten strength of his supporters’ loyalty is as impressive as his indifference to expanding their numbers.

And you’re an elitist blowhard, George Will.

It’s fun to watch the “intellectuals” of the world try to figure Trump out. Because they can’t do it, they have to dismiss him as a childish idiot who has no idea what he’s doing. It’s their coping mechanism.

There’s a disconnect between what THEY think makes a person smart and what ACTUALLY makes someone smart. Elitists automatically assume that anyone who doesn’t have the smooth and “moving” speaking skills of Barack Obama is dumb as a rock. In reality, it’s not about HOW you say it. It’s about WHAT YOU SAY. But again– everything is about presentation in George Will’s world. All of their (the elitists’) factors are like that. Rugged common sense isn’t respected in academia or Washington. Ditching traditional political decorum is frowned upon.

I don’t think Trump is as thin-skinned as people say. He knows how to pump up his base and tweak his political enemies. In hitting back, he kills two birds with one stone. I think he’s a lot smarter than MSM gives him credit for, and I totally believe he’s taking on the Deep State. It’s the only explanation for the vicious hatred that constantly surrounds him.