Must be tough being George Will — watching someone like Donald Trump shit all over the party he spent decades carrying water for.
Must be a horrifying experience.
Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign 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.
George Will is all about “manners and grace,” so the idea of a thug like Trump leading the party of the sainted Reagan must give Will that feeling you get when you are about to vomit.
Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties.
Will sees the apocalypse looming for the GOP.
Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.
Indeed. The GOP civil war is fixin’ to commence. The guns are loaded and aimed at Fort Sumter. And the only way it can end is after Hillary’s March to the Sea in November.
Make sure you have lots of popcorn.