6/16/18
Conservative commentator George Will ripped the Republican Party during an appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, accusing the party of subservience to the president. In an interview with Maher, Will hit back at claims from Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker (R), a top critic of the president in the party, who said this week that the GOP was becoming "cult-like" in its reverence for Trump. "We are in a strange place. I mean, it’s almost, it’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it? And it’s not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of — purportedly, of the same party," Corker told reporters. Will disagreed, arguing that cult members believe in their leader's actions, while modern-day Republicans, he says, act out of fear.
“It’s not a cult. A cult implies misguided if sincere worship. This is fear,” Will said. “They’re not worshipful, they are invertebrates. They are frightened.” Will is a frequent and outspoken critic of the Trump administration from the right, and in December declared that Trump had become the worst president in U.S. history. "By joining Stephen K. Bannon’s buffoonery on [Roy] Moore’s behalf, the 45th president planted an exclamation point punctuating a year of hitherto unplumbed presidential depths," he wrote, referring to Trump and Bannon's support for former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R). "He completed his remarkably swift — it has taken less than 11 months — rescue of the 17th, Andrew Johnson, from the ignominy of ranking as the nation’s worst president."
