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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
Thu May 10, 2018, 12:29 AM May 2018

Trump Is No Longer The Worst Person In Government.

Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.

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It is said that one cannot blame people who applaud Arpaio and support his rehabilitators (Trump, Pence, et al.), because, well, globalization or health-care costs or something. Actually, one must either blame them or condescend to them as lacking moral agency. Republicans silent about Pence have no such excuse.

There will be negligible legislating by the next Congress, so ballots cast this November will be most important as validations or repudiations of the harmonizing voices of Trump, Pence, Arpaio and the like. Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-no-longer-the-worst-person-in-government/2018/05/09/10e59eba-52f1-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.516c59b59914

This op-ed is by, of all people, George Will, a person I seldom agree with. But he really takes it to Pence. Good reading.
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Trump Is No Longer The Worst Person In Government. (Original Post) The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 OP
Kick and highly recommend. dae May 2018 #1
It is a great piece. dalton99a May 2018 #2
GEORGE WILL? BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #3
It's no longer Right vs. Left Dopers_Greed May 2018 #4
I read him in my daily paper. JohnnyRingo May 2018 #5
Will is not often right. Pope George Ringo II May 2018 #6
This is great news... Mike Nelson May 2018 #7
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2018 #8
Dont often find a word I dont know but had to look up oleaginous: Amaryllis May 2018 #9
LOL, I was pretty sure it meant "milky and oozing". Because, Mike Pence. flibbitygiblets May 2018 #11
When George Will crystallizes what we were all thinking. flibbitygiblets May 2018 #10

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
4. It's no longer Right vs. Left
Thu May 10, 2018, 02:10 AM
May 2018

It's now "Allies of America" vs. "Enemies of America"

Even though I don't agree will him on most things, George Will is at least in the first category.

Dump and Pence, however...

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
5. I read him in my daily paper.
Thu May 10, 2018, 02:20 AM
May 2018

You know, that pulpy monochrome ink on papyrus thing we used to read, and he's been at Trump's throat since day one. I think the current president upsets Will's vision of an orderly conservative movement.

They both have a goal of destroying the government, just different approaches.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
6. Will is not often right.
Thu May 10, 2018, 05:13 AM
May 2018

But he's got some principles, and he is smart enough to foresee the mess Trump is going to leave his country and his party in. And it's always nice to hear a Republican, even an "establishment" one, admit that Pence is actually worse than Trump.

Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
7. This is great news...
Thu May 10, 2018, 05:20 AM
May 2018

...after Trump "won" (in quotes because Hillary won; Trump was elected). I expected all Republicans to fall in line behind Pence... nice to see an old Republican warrior like George Will recognize Pence.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
11. LOL, I was pretty sure it meant "milky and oozing". Because, Mike Pence.
Fri May 11, 2018, 12:38 AM
May 2018

Thanks for looking it up, Amaryllis!

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