George Will and the Great Unwashed!

The Inevitability Factor: When Reality Reaches It's Apex!

By Rich Kozlovich

Today, August 13, 2020, Gene Comiskey posted this piece, What is George Will's Problem? saying:

In reading George Will’s recent column (“The Difference between Trumpism and fascism”), I was struck by a few things: his elitist anti-Trump tone, his denigration of the President’s supporters and his lack of understanding of Donald Trump’s appeal. The thing which struck me most, however, was not a failure to know the past, but his inability to apply the lessons of history to the present. He recites the basics of the history of fascism while completely missing how that history applies to the current situation.

He then goes on to ask this question:

What is it about Donald Trump that so offends George Will? Does the President fail Will’s ideological purity test? Is it the tweeting? Is it that most of Donald Trump’s supporters probably never subscribed to National Review? Or is it something as petty as the recognition that most of the President’s supporters are not members of the elites? They don’t belong to the country clubs that so-called Republicans like George Will belong to, and probably prefer it that way.

He goes on to note Will "compares the fascist leaders to Donald Trump, describing them as strongarm bullies without intellectual weight or nuanced arguments."  And of course my first thought is - he's a strong arm bully based on what?  What about Trump being "without intellectual weight or nuanced argument"?  I disagree with his assessment of Trump's intelligence.  At the beginning I would have agreed.  But Trump is a fooler.  As I watched his actions I realized he was a whole lot smarter than I thought, and a whole lot smarter than any of his predecessors, and he has guts!

As for nuanced arguments: I say who cares?  Nuances aren't black and white, nuanced thinking represents gray area thinking.  Nothing is really right, nothing is really wrong, everything is gray.  Well, gray is the color of fog, making clarity of thought difficult.  Some things really are right and some things really are wrong.  Trump cuts through the fog, hence, he has clarity, and he's patient.  The only question that needs answering is this:  Is he right in his assessments and actions or not?

He's worked at cutting taxes, regulations, reducing government, ending our trade imbalances, stimulating job growth and new business start ups, and refurbishing the military.  All the things George Will and his "peers" have supposedly supported for decades.  However, the people he likes say they'll do it, but have failed to do so consistently since Ronald Reagan.  Will thinks they're the real conservatives.   Trump said he would do it, and has been doing it, and yet Will despises him, declaring Trump to be a fascist.

The author goes on to say:

Will’s own obvious contempt for the “bellowing audiences” is on full display. Will concludes his piece with the snide comment that (compared to Trumpism), “Fascism was and is more interesting.” Really, more interesting? What exactly was the interesting part of fascism, George? Was it anti-Semitism? Was it Kristallnacht or the concentration camps? The Final Solution? World War II?

Leftists are destroying cities, corrupting education, flaunting the nation's laws, innocents are being murdered in the streets, corrupting the election process, working to overthrow the Constitution, and George Will and his lot think Trump's the problem?  Is there something wrong with George Will's mind?  Yes.

Yesterday I posted this piece,  John Kasich Was a Disgrace Yesterday, He's a Disgrace Today, He'll Be a Bigger Disgrace Tomorrow!  Well, that can be said of George Will, Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney and other arrogant self-righteous false conservative elites.  And I'm going to say it in what I see as a series of articles which I'm going to call, The Inevitability Factor: When Reality Reaches It's Apex!