Columnist George F. Will:
“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”.
“The nation’s downward spiral into acrimony and
sporadic anarchy has had many causes much larger than the small man who is the
great exacerbator of them. Most of the causes predate his presidency, and most
will survive its January terminus. The measures necessary for restoration of
national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal.
One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the
sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear
“magically,” as Eric Trump said the coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his
congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his
ankles with a canine hunger for petting”.
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