Hey, did y’all hear that Trump’s going over to summer camp to meet with some of the camp counselors, the ones that form the rules – you know? And then, this is when Trump proves how cool he is, he’s going to sneak off and meet with his best buddy, the guy that he does just the craziest stuff with? Wait, wait, you knew that? Only you thought it was a NATO meeting and then Russian Summit? Yeah, that, too – but not one hell of a lot of difference when you get right down to it, right?
Admittedly, it didn’t take a huge leap of genius insight to note that Trump is on the express train to screw this up in unique and unpredictable ways. After all, he just had a dress rehearsal with the G-7 followed by a disastrous meeting with Kim Jung Un, of North Korea. Trump could not praise the young idiot enough, the same one that kills, puts people in labor camps, starves his people; you know, the type of guy that Trump longs to be. Wait till he gets to meet the real deal dictator, one with a button just as big as his, oh, and one with serious “kompromat” on Trump.
At some point, you’ve surely been nauseated to the point where your doctor prescribed some outlandishly expensive anti-nausea medicine. If you don’t have any left, I highly suggest you call that same doctor’s office now, say you haven’t kept water down for 2 days and need a bunch more, like a crate. ‘Cause this is going to test your stomach like nothing before, and George Will would know better than anyone. George F’in Will was so damnably smart before he became anti-Trump, that he actually became anti-Trump, that’s who we’re dealing with here:
“As the president prepares, if this time he does prepare, for his second summit, note all that went wrong at the first,” Will wrote at the start of his editorial. “If he does as badly in his July 16 meeting with Vladimir Putin in Finland as he did with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the consequences could be catastrophic.”
Yes, that does sound right. And, as one of my all-time favorite presidents once said; “Please proceed.”
The most dangerous moment of the Trump presidency will arrive when he, who is constantly gnawed by insecurities and the fear of not seeming what he is not (“strong”), realizes how weak and childish he seems to all who cast a cool eye on Singapore’s aftermath. The danger is of him lashing out in wounded vanity. Meanwhile, this innocent abroad is strutting toward a meeting with the cold-eyed Russian who is continuing to dismantle one of Europe’s largest nations, Ukraine. He is probably looking ahead to ratcheting up pressure on one of three small nations, Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia, each a member of the NATO alliance that, for the first time in its 69 years, is dealing with a U.S. president who evinces no admiration for what it has accomplished or any understanding of its revived importance as the hard man in Moscow, who can sniff softness, relishes what Singapore revealed.
So strong with the Force that paragraph, even Yoda felt the need to weigh in (from whatever dimension he happens to continue to live): “A mark that will leave, hmm?”
Now, it’s quite possible that having written stuff so smart, Will had to take a break from what we call reality, and beg for a future slightly less awful than the one in which we currently endure (some of us, anyway):
Were he to be nominated [again in another primary in 2020, and/or simply run for president again as a Repubican,] conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — consign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.
I will be the first to admit that my I.Q. does not exceed the square root of George Will’s, however, that paragraph qualifies as quite possibly the stupidest thing he’s ever written.
That’s because Will believes there still exist more than a couple conservatives, and no, the simply delicious Nicolle Wallaces, and extremely necessary Steve Schmidts do not count. For all practical purposes they are Democrats. After all, no one should be homeless.
But, I refuse to end there, because props must be given to the thinking man’s conservative, whatever that means nowadays. So, here’s to you, Mr. Will. May the end of the empire treat you less badly than the rest of us.
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