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Wiz Imp

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25. Will is actually partially right.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 07:57 PM

May 30

Trump is not now nor has he ever been a traditional conservative. Almost none of his actions as President (beyond tax cuts for the rich) have anything in common with long held conservative orthodoxy. But it's not just Trump - the entire Republican party (or at least 99.9% of it) embraces the MAGA agenda. While the MAGA agenda has little in common with historical conservative "values", given that the entire traditional conservative party has embraced that agenda so much so that it's only fair to now consider MAGA politics as being the "new" conservative.

Of course trying to paint Trump as some sort of liberal or progressive is insane. The only political ideology (beyond conservative) that applies to Trump & MAGA is fascism. The fact that Will fails to acknowledge that shows how pathetic he is.

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In a tour de force of sophistry, George Will says Trump is really one of those god-awful progressives. [View all] Celerity May 30 OP

Will is... GiqueCee May 30 #1

He's Officially Nuts, If... ProfessorGAC May 30 #2

But it will get under slobby's thin skin. SheltieLover May 30 #6

Well, There Is That! ProfessorGAC May 30 #14

Yup lol SheltieLover May 30 #16

Trump doesn't understand all of the multi syllable words Will uses. madinmaryland May 30 #20

Always loved Will's logic and oratory while disagreeing with much he liked for government policy. dutch777 May 30 #3

Mental deterioration ? dweller May 30 #4

This with chicken TACO might cause slobby to blow a gasket SheltieLover May 30 #5

Wrong. And nazis weren't socialists either, you vacuous twit. EYESORE 9001 May 30 #7

That's it exactly unblock May 30 #10

That's nice, George Will. Paladin May 30 #8

George Will is a dill weed. hadEnuf May 30 #9

Well, he likes baseball. elleng May 30 #11

More full-on sophistry from one of America's most annoying, pompous hacks . . hatrack May 30 #12

wow. i thought he died johnnyfins May 30 #13

Completely delusional biocube May 30 #15

George Will hates Trump, calling him "a bigger threat than Hillary Clinton" in 2016, red dog 1 May 30 #17

See George cross the sill of the Door to Dementia struggle4progress May 30 #18

Will is doing everything he can to avoid the fact that he worked his whole life to make this happen. JHB May 30 #19

Someone has been wearing his bow tie a little tight, it's cutting off oxygen to his brain. JHB May 30 #21

What's with so-called "conservatives" (actually just reactionaries) and bow ties anyway? pat_k May 30 #27

Camoflage. It makes them look more staid and reserved, providing better cover for their RW radicalism. JHB May 30 #31

I always wondered if they were emulating some reactionary hero... pat_k May 30 #32

Gosh, maybe the Republican party shouldn't have chosen him as their presidential candidate THREE TIMES. tanyev May 30 #22

George Will never understood politics, discovers he doesn't hate liberalism but Johonny May 30 #23

They called GHW Bush a liberal. Solly Mack May 30 #24

Will is actually partially right. Wiz Imp May 30 #25

Will needs to stick to baseball commenting. Ritabert May 30 #26

Will needs to wave goodbye and go to the beach and read novels. marble falls May 30 #28

Will needs to go.... spanone May 30 #29

Stuff a baseball in Will's big loud mouth ... Tarzanrock May 30 #30