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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve
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Charlie Sykes
@SykesCharlie
"For Trump, the suppurating wound on American life, and for those who share his curdled venom, war is a hellacious distraction from their self-absorption. Fortunately, their ability to be major distractions is waning." -- George Will
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nations...
The former president has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.
8:31 AM · Mar 5, 2022
Charlie Sykes
@SykesCharlie
"For Trump, the suppurating wound on American life, and for those who share his curdled venom, war is a hellacious distraction from their self-absorption. Fortunately, their ability to be major distractions is waning." -- George Will
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nations...
The former president has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.
8:31 AM · Mar 5, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/04/power-of-trump-in-gop-is-waning/
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https://archive.ph/domfe
Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nations sleeve. His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his partys selection of candidates for state and federal offices. This is, however, perilous because he has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.
So, Trump must try to emulate the protagonist of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. In Mark Twains novel, a 19th-century American is transported back in time to Britain in the year 528. He gets in trouble, is condemned to death, but remembers that a solar eclipse occurred on the date of his scheduled execution. He saves himself by vowing to extinguish the sun but promising to let it shine again if his demands are met.
Trump is faltering at the business of commanding outcomes that are, like Twains eclipse, independent of his interventions. Consider the dilemma of David Perdue.
He is a former Republican senator because Trump, harping on the cosmic injustice of his November loss in 2020, confused and demoralized Georgia Republicans enough to cause Perdues defeat by 1.2 percentage points in the January 2021 runoff. Nevertheless, Trump talked Perdue into running in this years gubernatorial primary against Georgias Republican incumbent, Brian Kemp, whom Trump loathes because Kemp spurned Trumps demand that Georgias presidential vote be delegitimized. In a February poll, Kemp led Perdue by 10 points.
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Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
LOL...it started on that escalator ride down and ends the same way. Fucker.
CurtEastPoint
Mar 2022
#3
underpants
(182,632 posts)1. Okay I looked up suppurating
undergo the formation of pus; fester.
spanone
(135,795 posts)5. I had to do the same, Mr. Will probably did too before he wrote it.
An effete snob
He rewrites what everyone else wrote this week with some fancy words.
spanone
(135,795 posts)10. Hahahahahaaa
dweller
(23,613 posts)2. Just be this
✌🏻
CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)3. LOL...it started on that escalator ride down and ends the same way. Fucker.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)4. Perhaps he can go on tour with the howling monkeys
Ptah
(33,021 posts)6. Further in the article
For example, the vaudevillian-as-journalist Tucker Carlson, who never lapses into logic, speaks like an arrested-development adolescent: Putin has never called me a racist, so there.
BComplex
(8,019 posts)8. "Stray orange hair".... He's more like a pubic hair you find in your biscuit.
Gag inducing.
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)9. I.......
Boomerproud
(7,943 posts)11. George Will is desperate for us to forget IT.
I have a very long memory.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)12. As much as I hope this would be true.
We wont be rid of trump until he is dead.