But the real questions that he raises, while playing to the hysteria of a certain element in the Republican Party, are not the ones he intended. But as posted in another thread, consider these questions:
A. Is George Will truly a Conservative? pB. Is the Republican Party truly a Conservative Party? (Yes McKinley, Coolidge & Reagan were Conservatives, but that is about 18+ years, out of a 161 year history.)
C. Is Trump, now awake and showing it, really less Conservative on the actual issues than Jeb Bush, Governor Kasich, Governor Christie, or others who are acceptable to George Will?
D. Or is George Will simply reflecting the hysterical approach of those Republicans who like to accommodate President Obama, when the chips are down, rather than stand up for their oaths of office? In other words, simply accommodating the Whipped cur breed, who are Conservative only in their own pretenses, but contemptible in their performance in the face of challenge.
William Flax
One might even characterize the major defining issue that gave birth to the GOP, the anti slavery issue, as a kind of liberal issue. Not liberal in today’s illiberal caricaturish twisted government nanny sense, but in the older sense of bucking the established order towards a greater personal freedom.
Maybe it’s fitting that games of Twister keep on getting put up on FR. We’ve been utterly twisted. And it’s our own fault.