Saturday, May 12, 2018

Will of the Wasp

Time was George Will was a respected writer on the right; a little prissy with his bow ties, but relatively solid. For the last two years he has been Mr. Negative about Trump and all who sail with him. Will's current column for The Washington Post is entitled:
Trump is no longer the worst person in government.
In the column Will says really awful things about Vice President Mike Pence, for example:
The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
Honestly, Will takes Trump hatred to new and rarefied heights. Supporting the President seems sufficient to make Pence, in Will's eyes, "America’s most repulsive public figure."

Given all the hostile things Will has said of Democrats in years past, and now says of mainstream Republicans too, he no longer has a political home in today's America. I think he might be happier elsewhere, as an expat perhaps. Or maybe he could become a baseball commentator for ESPN and eschew politics.