Thread: George Will leaves the GOP over Trump

Does anyone really care what George Will thinks or does? He has shown himself to be an elitist that likes the status quo in Washington. In my opinion, he has been nothing but a subversive for the establishment Republicans and disdainful to the will of the people. JMO

The thread has morphed into why they don't like Trump. I posted a very interesting explanation through an article, a bit deep but very plausible. The essence of George Will is exactly as you have put it, he represents the establishment republicans and elite media. Their hate, disdain and fear of Trump resides in the future destruction of the elites (themselves) by Trump that have had no interest in the voters will, but in their own agendas. Kystol and Will are self-fulfilling the idea that Trump will de-throne the elites. They are getting out of the way on their own.

This is why the right hates Donald Trump: He doesn’t question their core beliefs, but they still see the danger

It is a few posts back and worth reading.

by JOEL B. POLLAK
26 Jun 2016

Last year, political commentator George F. Will won recognition for standing up to political correctness. This year, he is enforcing it.

Will told the lawyers of the conservative Federalist Society at a Friday luncheon that he had de-registered from the Republican Party over the impending nomination of Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. He is only the latest Republican establishment figure to declare that if the conventional candidates lose — even just this once — he will simply quit.

Will said he became an “unaffiliated” voter despite the risk of Hillary Clinton appointing liberal justices to the Supreme Court. In April, he blasted Trump as “the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in [the Republican Party’s] history,” and called Trump’s supporters “quislings” and “collaborationists,” terms that originated to describe those who helped the Nazis.

Because Trump won’t toe the party line, Will wants even those who support him to be “ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.”

Last year, Will sang a different tune. In delivering the inaugural keynote address to the Disinvitation Dinner of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale, Will — who was “disinvited” from Scripps College in California for questioning the left’s sexual assault statistics — declared that “free speech has never been, in the history of our republic, more comprehensively, aggressively, and dangerously threatened than it is now.” He also warned that Hillary Clinton had said “one of the four most important things she wants to do in the world is … end the First Amendment as we have known it.”

Trump is the first presidential candidate to challenge political correctness head-on. The would-be censors who attack Will and so many others have made Trump the target of their obsessions.

And yet instead of defending Trump — even while, perhaps, retaining his criticisms — Will has demonized him, and explicitly advises Republicans: “Make sure he loses.”

Indeed — and let the disinviters run the country, as long as there are still after-dinner speeches to give.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...ublican-party/

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times - Sunday, June 26, 2016

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to hammer George Will, after the influential conservative pundit said he was leaving the GOP.

“George Will, one of the most overrated political pundits (who lost his way long ago), has left the Republican Party,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee tweeted. “He’s made many bad calls.”

Mr. Will on Friday said he changed his voter registration earlier this month to “unaffiliated,” reported PJ Media.

“This is not my party,” he said at a Federalist Society luncheon, mentioning House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to endorse Mr. Trump as the cause of his departure.

He said conservative voters should not support Mr. Trump in the presidential race but should focus their efforts on trying to win back the White House in four years.

“Make sure he loses,” Mr. Will said at a Federalist Society luncheon. “Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ative-columni/