http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436966/donald-trump-republicans-dump-trump-withholding-donations

Columns like the above confirm three views I have of George Will, as a man, a writer, and as a personality type.

As a man, Will is at heart a prissy social climber from Illinois who came East, discovered the wonderful world of Brooks Brothers, and then set about establishing a career for himself as a bow-tie Beltway conservative pundit. His pedantic, sissified demeanor betrays insufficient time spent in boys locker rooms competing in helmeted sports as a youth.

As a writer, Will's talents are largely derivative and stem from two sources: (i) an ability to assemble (probably from a commonplace book that he keeps) quotations, epigrams, insights, and anecdotes borrowed from others more distinguished, original, and talented than he, and (ii) an ability to cobble these together in such a way that they support, almost entirely, the foundation and superstructure of his columns. To borrow from Greek antiquity, Will writes prettily; but Trump makes us march. (Could this jealousy be the source of Will's evident malice towards Trump?) Which leads us to ....

As personality type, Will is (how to say it kindly?) ... a fetishist! How else to explain his blind obsession with Donald Trump and his absolute die-hard refusal to say or write anything good about the presumptive GOP nominee, despite significant evidence to the contrary?

What is one to do with such a spoiled child?

What is one to do in general with all these ideological vestal virgins on the Right who behave as if they and only they are pure enough to be keepers of the conservative flame? 

Perhaps one could suggest to Will, and to the other ivory tower conservatives condemned to write for failing (and heavily subsidized) echo chambers like NR and the Weekly Standard, that they get out of their comfortable, rarefied worlds and experience what life is like among the real people of America.

Were they to do so, the choice between a pathologically corrupt liar like Hillary Clinton, on the one hand, and a Blue Collar Billionaire and patriot like Donald Trump on the other, would not seem so difficult, even for those of such precious sensibility as George Will.