I am so confused.
George Will
Who? Has he played a significant role in past elections and I’ve never noticed?
and baseball fan
Why? Why is this part of this story? It makes me want to care even less. Is that the point?
don’t how old you are, but will is old school republican. hails from what what was known as the “intellectual” appendage of the gop’s corpse. dude is wrong, but not dumb.
if we set aside the accelerated rightward sprint of the democrats since the 1980’s, a public kamala endorsement from him really is kind of a pigs flying moment.
this move might signal to the remains of his caste that its ok to secretly pull that dem lever or just sit it out. effect will likely be minimal, but not inconsequential in a super tight race.
what is more intersting is that parts of the lobotomized right are still making gurgling noises.
Yes, he has played a significant role in past elections all the way back to Reagan, and you haven’t noticed.
He’s an intellectual pundit that was on Fox News until 2017. He writes political commentary for the Washington Post; his column currently appears in 415 newspapers.
He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
He continues to appear on MSNBC to this day.
He’s also considered to be a baseball expert who has written extensively on the subject including his own book. Their “baseball fan” comment was intended to be cute, I think.
haven’t a clue myself.
I was like… “george who? King George? Curious George? George Costanza?”
George Will is a conservative commentator whose name is familiar to us olds. He used to write in Newsweek when it was a prominent magazine back in the day and was on TV. I imagine he is a never-trumper so what is surprising here is not that he would refuse to vote but that he will vote for Harris. That can only mean that the old guard conservatives recognize trump as an existential threat to the country which he is.
most of the super-rich folks prefer stability over chaos.
Like a lot of people talk about how rich Musk and Bezos are. They’re likely not the richest people in the world- they’re the richest people in the world dumb enough to talk about how rich they are. The Rockefeller family, for example, has who-knows-how-much stashed away in blind llc’s etc, and all the Old Money types pay a fortune to maintain their privacy.
People like the Koch brothers (well except that fourth one that’s not talked about,)… they endorsed trump last time around because he promised to deregulate everything- and they’ve been on a tear ever since they got dinged for benzene leaks in Corpus Christi.
