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Right-Wing Columnist George Will Calls for the Ouster of the Republican Majority

Right-Wing Columnist George Will Calls for the Ouster of the Republican Majority

Last updated on: June 22, 2018 at 8:46 pm by Susan Wright

Right-Wing Columnist George Will Calls for the Ouster of the Republican Majority 2018-06-22T20:46:24-04:00 Susan Wright

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It’s not like I don’t understand the frustration. As I’ve mentioned, I threw my hands up in utter disgust after the Republican National Convention, back in July 2016. Given what I knew about how Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and then-RNC Chairman Reince Priebus conspired and bullied to keep the delegates opposed to Donald Trump from having a say, per convention rules, on the convention floor, I doubted my disgust with the party could get much higher.

Subsequent knowledge of how the party even altered their platform to soften language towards Russia, per Manafort and Trump campaign team’s request, along with some of the questionable speakers at the convention (not the least of which included Donald Trump, himself), and I knew the party was trashed.

Truly, we are at a time when there is no Republican party, except in name, only. The party of Lincoln, Coolidge, and Reagan is no more.

For those who are still clinging to the decaying corpse of what used to be the Grand Old Party, but now only exists to do the bidding of Donald Trump, they risk any semblance of dignity or professionalism they may have once presented to the nation.

It’s as if they forget that their first priority as public servants and representatives of the people is to serve the best interest of their constituents, not to simply roll over for any passing whim of the president.

For some who have retained their souls and resisted the draw to lay it all down at the orange altar, they’re faced with some difficult decisions.

For conservative columnist George Will, he sees only one way to set this ship right again, and it’s going to be hard for some to swallow.

Vote Republicans out of the majority in November.

Will penned a piece for the Washington Post on Friday, noting why Republicans need to be drop-kicked.

Speaking of the “zero tolerance” policy at the border and the nightmarish optics, Will referred to it as “the most telegenic example of misrule” and it provided “fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which” independents and moderate Republicans should vote.

The howls of “RINO!” are going up all over MAGAville, but as I pointed out, the Republican party is no longer Republican, at least in the form it was meant to embody, so those doing the shouting may need to pipe down.

Further, Will says:

“The principle: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers,” Will wrote. “They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.”

Guys, you weren’t sent there to rubberstamp whatever Trump says. No president should have unchecked power.

Will specifically called out lawmakers like House Speaker Paul Ryan, referring to them as Trump’s “poodles.”

I think that was his way of calling them obedient dogs of the president.

“Not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it,” Will added. “Congressional Republicans (congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents) have no higher ambition than to placate this president.”

Nailed it.

You can see he’s on to something by how many politicians are vying for office now, based on if they are “Trump Republicans,” showing appropriate subservience to the president.

Is “separate, but co-equal” a thing, anymore?

“The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to undo by unilateral decree the border folly they could have prevented by actually legislating, is an advertisement for the unimportance of Republican control.”

Ouch.

The truth hurts.

So I get what he’s saying, completely. What is happening in our government today is absolutely frightening.

Will I be voting for Democrats in November?

Not a chance. Their platform, their values do not align with mine, nor with the best interests of our nation.

So what choice is left?

Republicans or those like myself, who are “without party” need to seriously begin considering the third party options, or simply consider their vote on a race-by-race basis.

What we don’t need to do is continue on this doomed ride, simply out of party loyalty.

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