I've listened to and read what George Will has said in the past.

It's pretty obvious that he's a very intelligent guy. He's smart and educated.

The problem is he's basically the right wing political version of the liberal "educator".

Everything they say (both types) makes sense in the "theoretical", the class room, in books, etc. When applied to the real world that people actually live in, not so much.

And therein lies the issue. They can't quite come to grip with the fact that the unwashed masses don't "get it", aren't listening to them, and are acting counter to what their theory states. They don't take into consideration that people find it hard to accept their lecturing when they're sitting at their table trying to figure out how to pay the tax bill, or why their job disappeared. Their philosophies don't translate to real people and rather than coming down from the ivory tower to find out WHY, they find a scapegoat like Trump because what he says does resonate with those same people.

That's pretty much the textbook definition of a pompous windbag IMO.