(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Washington Post columnist and conservative elder George Will excoriated the congressional Republicans who voted against an aid package for Ukraine, saying they endangered “civilization” on Wednesday.
“Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering — the nihilism of a febrile minority in their party — a majority of House Republicans voted last Saturday to endanger civilization,” began Will in his no-holds-barred lede. “Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious ‘establishment’), they voted to assure Vladimir Putin's attempt to erase a European nation.”
While Will called out President Joe Biden for failing to quickly provide the Ukrainians with the weapons they need to repel the Russians, he reserved the bulk of his venom for the GOP, in which he wrote “the cabal of grotesques might yet dominate.”
By name, Will criticized Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). describing Vance as “an itinerant Neville Chamberlain visiting green rooms,” and mocking Greene for her Jewish space laser fantasy.
“We have defined heroism so far down that it encompasses Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) allowing a House vote on assisting Ukrainians’ resistance to indiscriminate bombardments of population centers, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture and the abduction of children,” he observed, before warning that “Today’s Moscow-Beijing-Tehran axis is, as the 1930s Axis was, watching.”
The Senate approved a foreign aid package to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on Tuesday night after the House of Representatives did the same over the weekend. Its passage ended months of deadlock during which many Republicans indicated that they would under no circumstances support the provision of more aid to Ukraine.
“We can now see that the great unraveling that was World War II perhaps began with Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria. Without the benefit of retrospection, we cannot be certain that World War III has not begun,” concluded Will.
