George Will reveals the key to defeating MAGA

Among opponents of President Donald Trump, there is a lot of debate about whether Democrats should move to the left or the center. "Real Time" host Bill Maher believes that "woke identity politics" cause Democrats to lose votes, and similarly, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argues that Democrats have a "woke problem" when they alienate voters by using "Latinx" and other "faculty lounge jargon."

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is no fan of "woke" language either. And like Maher and Carville, he is also a scathing critic of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

In a column published on July 9, Will points to centrist Democrat Rahm Emanuel — former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff for the Obama Administration — as an example of someone who, he says, is doing Democrats a favor by forcefully rejecting "the culture police."

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"Politics is mostly talk," Will argues. "In an interview, Emanuel says, more in anger than in sorrow, that too many Democrats speak as though their words have been 'focus-grouped in a faculty lounge.' He has a point."

The Never Trumper continues, "If the progressives who coined the term 'Latinx' had known a few Hispanics, they would have known there was no interest in a 'nonbinary' (more progressive-speak) name for members of an ethnic group who have said they prefer to be called 'Americans.' Between 2020 and 2024, Donald Trump increased his portion of the Latino vote from 36 percent to 48 percent."

Progressives, Will laments, sound like they "speak a private language" when they use terms like "Latinx" and "justice-involved populations" — which, he says, make voters feel "mystified."

"Emanuel wishes some Democrats would worry less about 'a child’s right to pick his pronouns' and more about 'children who do not know what a pronoun is,'" the conservative columnist writes. "He is proud of an education reform he instituted as mayor: Before handing a diploma to a high school senior, the student had to hand over a letter of acceptance from a four-year college, a community college, an armed service or a vocational school…. Emanuel sees signs of incipient sanity in the fact that in this year's gubernatorial contest, the two most important contests, Democrats have nominated two centrists with national security backgrounds: in New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former helicopter pilot; in Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer and congresswoman."

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Will adds, "The uber-progressive president of New Jersey’s teachers union finished fifth in a primary field of six."

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George Will's full Washington Post column is available at this link (subscription required).