George Will on Donald Trump
← Back to Donald Trump ProfileGeorge Will, a conservative columnist, critiques Donald Trump's immigration policies, arguing they contradict core Republican principles of limited government and individual liberty.
“It has come to this. The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government's size and coercive powers... Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10 percent of California's workers, and 13 percent of that state's K–12 students. He is, however, at his most Republican when he honors family values: He proposes to deport intact families, including children who are citizens... Trump proposes seizing money that illegal immigrants from Mexico try to send home. This might involve sacrificing mail privacy, but desperate times require desperate measures. He would vastly enlarge the federal government's enforcement apparatus, but he who praises single-payer health care systems and favors vast eminent domain powers has never made a fetish of small government.”
Found within a broad list of topics beginning with the alphabet, W marks a statement questioning Donald Trump's true allegiance and potential destructive influence on the Republican party.
“If Donald Trump were a Democratic mole placed in the Republican Party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be any different? I don't think it would be.”
Following Trump's Twitter attack on him for leaving the Republican party, George Will wryly dismissed the then-candidate's limited communication skills.
“He has an advantage on me, because he can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters, and I can't.”