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[h=1]The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come.[/h]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...499fd4-c5f0-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html
Opinion by George F. Will
Columnist
Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future: Early voting begins in two states (South Dakota and Minnesota) 61 days from Sunday, which is 107 days before Election Day.
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.” Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
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For those who aren't aware, George Will was once a regular commentator on Fox, a lifetime Republican and Trump supporter. He left Fox in January 2017 claiming "it's their toy", and he left his support of Trump there too.
Steve Schmidt, also a lifelong Republican and campaign chairman of John McCain's campaign said:
"There was a real lack of imagination on the part of the American people four years ago about the capacity for someone like Trump to cause real tragedy. We should all be woken up now. We should be paying attention and this man must be defeated if there's going to be any chance to come out of this. Otherwise, the American that was will be no more. We'll be a rich country, we'll be a powerful country militarily but we won't be the preeminent country in the world anymore and that will be the singular result of Trump being the 45th president of the United States."
Opinion by George F. Will
Columnist
Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future: Early voting begins in two states (South Dakota and Minnesota) 61 days from Sunday, which is 107 days before Election Day.
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.” Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
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For those who aren't aware, George Will was once a regular commentator on Fox, a lifetime Republican and Trump supporter. He left Fox in January 2017 claiming "it's their toy", and he left his support of Trump there too.
Steve Schmidt, also a lifelong Republican and campaign chairman of John McCain's campaign said:
"There was a real lack of imagination on the part of the American people four years ago about the capacity for someone like Trump to cause real tragedy. We should all be woken up now. We should be paying attention and this man must be defeated if there's going to be any chance to come out of this. Otherwise, the American that was will be no more. We'll be a rich country, we'll be a powerful country militarily but we won't be the preeminent country in the world anymore and that will be the singular result of Trump being the 45th president of the United States."
