George Will Scorches GOP's Anti-Ukraine Wing With A Chilling Thought
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The conservative icon named and shamed the "cabal of grotesques" in the Republican party.
Longtime conservative commentator George Will pulled no punches as he tore into who he described as the “112 ignoble House Republicans” who voted at the weekend against sending aid to Ukraine.
Instead, they voted “to endanger civilization,” Will wrote in his latest column for The Washington Post published Wednesday.
“Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious ‘establishment’), they voted to assure [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a European nation,” Will fumed.
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But despite its eventual success, Will warned the “cabal of grotesques [in the GOP] might yet predominate.’”
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