George Will: Trump Is a One-Man Todd Akin

Conservative columnist George Will, who is sounding increasingly anxious about the unruly behavior of the 2016 GOP field, called celebrity plutocrat Donald Trump a “one-man Todd Akin,” in that his inflammatory statements pose a massive problem for the rest of the Republican Party.

“Picture him on stage in [the GOP debate in] Cleveland,” Will said on Fox News Sunday this morning. “He says something hideously inflammatory — which is all he knows how to say — and then what do the other nine people on stage do? Do they either become complicit in what he said by their silence, or do they all have to attack him? The debate gets hijacked. The process gets hijacked. At the end of the day he is a one-man Todd Akin. He’s Todd Akin with ten different facets.”

Akin derailed the GOP’s 2012 efforts to retake the Senate when his comments about “legitimate rape” not only cost him a Senate seat but played right into the Democrats’ War on Women narrative.

As for Trump, Will added that his antics were indistinguishable from those of a “Democratic mole” sent to wreak havoc upon the Republican field.

Watch below, via Fox:

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