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What to Make of Trump Fans’ Remarkable Cognitive Dissonance?
National Review Online ^ | August 26,2015 | GEORGE WILL

Posted on 08/27/2015 8:02:40 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Donald Trump finishes plastering a snarling face on conservatism, any Republican nominee will face a dauntingly steep climb to reach even the paltry numbers that doomed Mitt Romney.

It is perhaps quixotic to try to distract Trump’s supporters with facts, which their leader, who is no stickler for dignity, considers beneath him. Still, consider these:

The white percentage of the electorate has been shrinking for decades and will be about two points smaller in 2016 than in 2012. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first president

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: delusional; dependsoverload; flackgeorgewill; georgewill; prrepwill; rinogeorgewill; rinoinside; rinowill; will4walker
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To: Hojczyk
Will grows tiresome.

Go peddle your shtick and some cocktail party, somewhere.

61 posted on 08/27/2015 8:30:57 AM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: Hojczyk
Dear National Review,

If Donald Trump was on the Democratic ticket and Ted Cruz was on the Republican Ticket, I'd vote for Ted Cruz hands down.

If Donald Trump was on the Democratic Ticket and Jeb Bush (or any other GOP hack) was on the Republican Ticket, I'd vote for Donald Trump Hands down.

You see that? It is not about party - it's about principle.

62 posted on 08/27/2015 8:31:18 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Hojczyk

George Will — the snarling face of the crony communists.


63 posted on 08/27/2015 8:32:26 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Hojczyk

Wonder why Georgie Will never criticizes Walker?

Pray America is waking


64 posted on 08/27/2015 8:34:46 AM PDT by bray (Trump and Cruz to the White House)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I am moderate and I am for State’s rights. I am against the regime that is in place and has been in place. My family has been in this wonderful country since the 1700s. They worked hard and sacrificed to make it the best nation in history. I would like to see it regain that status. Pandering to every person with a “insert title here’ in front of the word American, makes me physically ill now.


65 posted on 08/27/2015 8:35:49 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (I was one of the #SILENTMAJORITY)
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To: Hojczyk
George Won't


66 posted on 08/27/2015 8:37:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: Lurkinanloomin
George Will is a paid propagandist for The Cheap Labor Express.

Until he is replaced by a foreigner...for less money.

67 posted on 08/27/2015 8:40:50 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Hojczyk

Will, you were anti-Reagan in the 1980 election and PRO-OBAMA in 2008 and now pro-Walker.

Your mind must be a freaking WASTELAND.


68 posted on 08/27/2015 8:42:16 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ziravan
For that purpose, what does it matter how well the wrench functions as a wrench?

Well said.

69 posted on 08/27/2015 8:45:47 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Hojczyk

George considers himself a wordsmith. He’s just a bought and paid-for lackey political hack of the cheap labor express.


70 posted on 08/27/2015 8:46:48 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Hojczyk

People only seem to notice his position on one issue. I’d like to see his full platform.


71 posted on 08/27/2015 8:48:51 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Hojczyk

What to make of GOPe cluelessness.


72 posted on 08/27/2015 8:51:29 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Hojczyk

So now, George Will is saying Trump followers are developmentally delayed. The GOPe and its apologists are all a bunch of phalluses.


73 posted on 08/27/2015 8:51:48 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Hojczyk

“Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon...”

I never thought I would see Will channeling Hugo Chavez.


74 posted on 08/27/2015 8:52:02 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Hojczyk

Watch them dance. Dance, RNC, dance...


75 posted on 08/27/2015 8:54:31 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Hojczyk

What’s with that opening sentence, Mr Will? It sounds like an entry in the Purple Prose Parody Contest.

Just because you don’t get the Trump movement, doesn’t mean it is illegitimate.


76 posted on 08/27/2015 8:56:58 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Hojczyk
The current GOPe leadership is about to give Obama his Iran Deal.

And George Will can't figure out Trumps' appeal.

77 posted on 08/27/2015 8:57:00 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Hojczyk

(John Boehner + Mitch McConnell) * (years of lying to the conservative base) = Support for Trump which the GOP establishment just can not get their heads around.

In my mind, Trump is as much about fixing the GOP and smashing PC’ness as anything. Any yes, I would take that to the full extent of voting for him.

The timing could not be better because if the Libs/Dems had so much as a decent candidate, I don’t think we could do this now.


78 posted on 08/27/2015 8:57:36 AM PDT by mad puppy (E PLURIBUS UNUM)
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To: Hojczyk

So erudite, so nuanced in his thinking. A man like George Will can drive you to burn books.


79 posted on 08/27/2015 8:59:06 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: Hojczyk
The white percentage of the electorate has been shrinking for decades and will be about two points smaller in 2016 than in 2012.

George Will, "We Need Yeb for the Messican & Illegal Alien vote!"

80 posted on 08/27/2015 9:00:52 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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