Columnist George Will Leaves GOP Over Trump: ‘This Is Not My Party’

George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author is interviewed by AP writer Hillel Italie on politics, history, and life without the late William F. Buckley, at... George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author is interviewed by AP writer Hillel Italie on politics, history, and life without the late William F. Buckley, at Will's office in Washington's Georgetown district, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Longtime columnist George Will has officially left the Republican Party, he told a group of conservatives on Friday.

Will, a conservative writer for the Washington Post, confirmed to PJ Media that he switched his Maryland party registration from GOP to unaffiliated.

At a meeting of the Federalist Society Friday in D.C., Will told the group it’s worth refusing to back Trump even if it hands the election to Democrat Hillary Clinton.

“This is not my party,” he told the group. “Make sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House.”

Will also cited House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) endorsement of the bombastic New York businessman as one of his final straws before de-registering.

The columnist has criticized Trump in the pages of the Post, and Trump last month fired back, calling him a “major loser.”

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  1. Huh. Never realized George Will was a Republican, I just thought he was an anti-Democrat.

  2. Will he be an Independent now? I doubt the Democratic party wants the little weasel fucker.

  3. My husband just told me the news, and I had to sit down.

    He won’t become a dem though. No way. But he ought to take a good, hard look at his party. Maybe he’ll realize that it enabled a Trump nomination.

    Then he can look in the mirror.

  4. Nah, he’s just a Very Serious Person, and thus it is his birthright to declaim his sage wisdom to the Little People.

  5. And BTW Mr Will, it’ll be at least 8 years before y’all have a shot, and that’s only if your party changes dramatically.

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