Chris Cillizza at CNN The Point (email)

[applegrove]

"SNIP.....

In an interview with The New York Times Book Review podcast, longtime conservative commentator George Will offered a stirring and stark assessment of what Donald Trump's presidency will mean for our politics and our culture.

Here's the key bit:

"I believe that what this president has done to our culture, to our civic discourse ... you cannot unring these bells and you cannot unsay what he has said, and you cannot change that he has now in a very short time made it seem normal for schoolboy taunts and obvious lies to be spun out in a constant stream. I think this will do more lasting damage than Richard Nixon's surreptitious burglaries did."

That's George Will, folks. Not Rachel Maddow. And it's George Will saying that what Trump is doing, has done and will do to -- and with -- the presidency is more destructive than the actions of a president who was forced to resign in order to keep from being impeached.

Sit with all of that for a minute.

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[Claritie Pixie]

1. George Will gets it.

So many who I once considered the enemy do.

Fascinating.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I'm hearing a lot of Reagan quotes about immigration, borders, and racism lately...

And I can't help but wonder what old-line conservatives like W.F. Buckley would think about what's going down these days.

At its most elemental, a democracy is about agreeing to disagree, and compromising over those disagreements. I prefer not to think we have lost that ability.