George Will’s column in the Washington Post last week was as jolting as it was insightful.  I don’t often describe George Will’s writings with these adjectives since almost every word out of his mouth and keyboard is abhorrent to me.  But we do share a common opinion, and that is of Donald Trump’s utter unfitness for the office of president.  Will’s been vocal and frequent in his criticisms, but in this most recent piece and follow up television appearances, he offers a unique solution to minimizing the damage Trump can inflict on the country: quarantine.  In his piece Will’s argument is this:

“Americans have placed vast military power at the discretion of this mind, a presidential discretion that is largely immune to restraint by the Madisonian system of institutional checks and balances. So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.” [emphasis mine]

Will suggests that not only is Trump subject to serious gaffes, historically inaccurate statements, and offensive speech, but, “Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.”  Will argues that not only is he slothful and lacks basic civics knowledge, but lacks the ability to even absorb knowledge.

So, Will puts it on us, the public, to pressure our representatives and senators to quarantine this menace until we can get him out of office.  He wants a bipartisan effort to not cooperate with his agenda; refuse to support his crazy ideas; repudiate his fascination with despots.  Correct him when he blatantly lies.

Perhaps quarantine will stop the epidemic of stupidity and hatefulness now running rampant from DC throughout the country.

Major media is now reporting that, in France, non-establishment but centrist Emanuel Macron has decisively defeated Trump-like, anti-immigrant candidate Marine LePen.  Hacking of Macron’s campaign seems to have had little effect on the outcome.  Is this the beginning of western civilization pulling back from the brink of hate-filled, racist, authoritarianism that peaked with the election of reality television star Donald Trump as president of the US?

As the Trump administration tightens it’s totalitarian grip on US government agencies, an order to turn all televisions to Fox Noise is being enforced.  Sorry, normal people, you must watch the Official Station of the Trump Administration.

Welcome to Trumpland in the 21st century.

John Dickerson of Face the Nation interviewed Trump as part of CBS’s 100 Days of Hell coverage.  Dickerson got all the way to the wiretapping claim and pressed him to give an answer.  After jousting for a minute, Trump dismissed Dickerson and ended the interview.  Here’s the transcript of the exchange.

JOHN DICKERSON: Did President Obama give you any advice that was helpful? That you think, wow, he really was–

DONALD TRUMP:  — Well, he was very nice to me. But after that, we’ve had some difficulties. So it doesn’t matter. You know, words are less important to me than deeds. And you– you saw what happened with surveillance. And everybody saw what happened with surveillance–

JOHN DICKERSON: Difficulties how? (more…)

Remember when President Obama fired Mike Flynn from the DIA in 2014?  Well.  In an attempt to cover for his own incompetence, Trump is now blaming Obama for Flynn, even though Obama fired him and Trump rehired him despite knowing he was taking money from foreign governments.  In leaked emails from Colin Powell, he described Flynn as a “right wing nutty” and “abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy…”

Flynn was so bad that apparently he was perfect for Trump, but his history as a foreign agent finally was too serious for even him to ignore.  In Trumpworld, where Cheeto Jesus makes no mistakes, Flynn is now all Obama’s fault.