George Will is losing his mind

eorge Will is a curious case. He has been around forever, but I honestly have no memory as to whether he made more sense, in the distant past, or I was just more forgiving. means what I suspect conservative ponderers think it to mean. He knows the right words, and knows a lot of them; he has learned that if the facts are against you, you can make up new ones; he knows that the most important thing is to toe the party line, and make your criticisms of the safe kind, and to imagine out scenarios of glorious conservative ascendency even if those scenarios are improbable in the extreme. category. His focus is on making his readers feel good about themselves, or at least feel bad about everyone else, which is the same thing.

starring Rick Santorum, is mostly a feel-good romp through two decades of conservative tropes in service to hailing the skills and bonafides of a schoolmarmish ultra-hard-right conservative whose only human emotion seems to be that of antagonistic prig in dire need of someone to lecture. If this is the conservative idea of a fun fellow, then I shudder to think what the average pastimes of Republican America might look like.

The complaint that Iowa is not a typical American state is true but trivial because there is no such state. Can you name one whose political culture, closely considered, is more like than unlike any other state’s?

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