Back in college during the Reagan years, I read the WaPo editorial page every day during lunch. I’d read William F. Buckley or George Will in an eat-your-veggies gesture. Seriously, reading conservatives is healthy, if only for the fiber. Buckley was always smarter in a smoldering ‘you’ve got a point’ kind of way. Will was the king of the conclusion that didn’t quite meet the premises he laid down.
Other than the wordiness, I don’t recognize the author of this column: “Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers.” You got a fresh batch of Post stories today, it’s worth burning one of this.
Social causation is difficult to demonstrate, particularly between one person’s words and other persons’ deeds. However: The person voters hired in 2016 to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” stood on July 28, 2017, in front of uniformed police and urged them “please don’t be too nice” when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement.
He then calls for nothing less than the complete dismantling of GOP power in Washington, it’s like reading a DKos front-pager sans profanity.
The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal. One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear “magically,” as Eric Trump saidthe coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting.
While the GOP has no decency left, I find some comfort in finding it in a conservative I’ve growled at for years, but never actually disliked.