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Wiz Imp

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25. Will is actually partially right.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2025, 07:57 PM

May 2025

Trump is not now nor has he ever been a traditional conservative. Almost none of his actions as President (beyond tax cuts for the rich) have anything in common with long held conservative orthodoxy. But it's not just Trump - the entire Republican party (or at least 99.9% of it) embraces the MAGA agenda. While the MAGA agenda has little in common with historical conservative "values", given that the entire traditional conservative party has embraced that agenda so much so that it's only fair to now consider MAGA politics as being the "new" conservative.

Of course trying to paint Trump as some sort of liberal or progressive is insane. The only political ideology (beyond conservative) that applies to Trump & MAGA is fascism. The fact that Will fails to acknowledge that shows how pathetic he is.

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In a tour de force of sophistry, George Will says Trump is really one of those god-awful progressives. [View all] Celerity May 2025 OP

Will is... GiqueCee May 2025 #1

He's Officially Nuts, If... ProfessorGAC May 2025 #2

But it will get under slobby's thin skin. SheltieLover May 2025 #6

Well, There Is That! ProfessorGAC May 2025 #14

Yup lol SheltieLover May 2025 #16

Trump doesn't understand all of the multi syllable words Will uses. madinmaryland May 2025 #20

Always loved Will's logic and oratory while disagreeing with much he liked for government policy. dutch777 May 2025 #3

Mental deterioration ? dweller May 2025 #4

This with chicken TACO might cause slobby to blow a gasket SheltieLover May 2025 #5

Wrong. And nazis weren't socialists either, you vacuous twit. EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #7

That's it exactly unblock May 2025 #10

That's nice, George Will. Paladin May 2025 #8

George Will is a dill weed. hadEnuf May 2025 #9

Well, he likes baseball. elleng May 2025 #11

More full-on sophistry from one of America's most annoying, pompous hacks . . hatrack May 2025 #12

wow. i thought he died johnnyfins May 2025 #13

Completely delusional biocube May 2025 #15

George Will hates Trump, calling him "a bigger threat than Hillary Clinton" in 2016, red dog 1 May 2025 #17

See George cross the sill of the Door to Dementia struggle4progress May 2025 #18

Will is doing everything he can to avoid the fact that he worked his whole life to make this happen. JHB May 2025 #19

Someone has been wearing his bow tie a little tight, it's cutting off oxygen to his brain. JHB May 2025 #21

What's with so-called "conservatives" (actually just reactionaries) and bow ties anyway? pat_k May 2025 #27

Camoflage. It makes them look more staid and reserved, providing better cover for their RW radicalism. JHB May 2025 #31

I always wondered if they were emulating some reactionary hero... pat_k May 2025 #32

Gosh, maybe the Republican party shouldn't have chosen him as their presidential candidate THREE TIMES. tanyev May 2025 #22

George Will never understood politics, discovers he doesn't hate liberalism but Johonny May 2025 #23

They called GHW Bush a liberal. Solly Mack May 2025 #24

Will is actually partially right. Wiz Imp May 2025 #25

Will needs to stick to baseball commenting. Ritabert May 2025 #26

Will needs to wave goodbye and go to the beach and read novels. marble falls May 2025 #28

Will needs to go.... spanone May 2025 #29

Stuff a baseball in Will's big loud mouth ... Tarzanrock May 2025 #30