From George F Will's recent editorial in WashPost:
"So, assume that the worst is yet to come."
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A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby
proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to
a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose
unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious
objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated:
We are the hollow men .?.?.
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats’ feet over broken glass .?.?.
Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that
never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such
thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national
security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as
decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is
entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.
