George Will Encourages Americans To Vote Against The GOP In The Midterms

George Will, a once respected conservative commentator, is quickly losing all credibility in my book.

He wrote a column in the Washington Post Friday, calling on Americans to vote against the GOP in the midterm elections.

Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections that can reshape Congress, the policy has given independents and temperate Republicans — these are probably expanding and contracting cohorts, respectively — fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which they should vote.

The principle: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers. They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.

Much like the vicious op-ed he recently penned about Mike Pence, this entire post is dripping with intellectual snobbery. That’s been his style lately.

He essentially argues that we need to vote against Republicans this fall in order to “quarantine” Trump.

In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.

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.

A signal of trouble for the GOP (George Will urging his own party members to vote against Republicans) or a sign of how much establishment GOP is actually now out of touch with its own party? Midterms will offer an answer. https://t.co/8Wao6aAczN

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 22, 2018

Longtime conservative writer George Will just called for the election of a Democratic Congress in November. Wow. https://t.co/AlToyeMWp8

— John Aravosis (@aravosis) June 22, 2018

The end is near … “Vote against the gop in nov”.. George will

— Robert Crean (@creanrbt) June 22, 2018

But do people like George Will carry any weight anymore?

— Retriever Mom🐾🐾💪 (@JoyPoos) June 22, 2018

Short answer: No. At least, not among regular Americans. As in, the regular Americans who got Trump elected in the first place.

Stick a fork in George Will. He’s done. I’m over him.