Top 55 Rick Wilson Quotes

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What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that

What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn’t for you – that Trump is about Trump.
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I think that Republicans are going to deeply, fundamentally, and profoundly regret the way that they have – the way Trump has – framed the party with Hispanics.
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If you think Barr’s Justice Department will take a single step to confront Trump or his cronies with any kind of challenge, think again. His hyper-maximalist vision of executive power borders on the fetishistic.
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Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.
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Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I’ve seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.
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I’ve written about this before, but the sad truth is this: There are only a handful of Trump true believers in the Senate. The rest are chugging a toxic slurry of cowardice, ambition, and opportunism that has led members of the upper house of a co-equal branch of government to relinquish their power and prerogatives.
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Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.
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America once used the words ‘treason’ and ‘traitors’ only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation’s most vital secrets or interests.
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Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It’s the subject he can never avoid, never fully wash out.
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I’m of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.
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Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.
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Kasich does two fundamentals in presidential politics wrong; he talks, and he keeps talking.
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We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and in the long wars since.
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The first two weeks of Donald Trump’s Presidency made it clear: Trump’s Gonna Trump. No newfound dignity for him.
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The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.
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McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their weaknesses, ambitions, and desires. In an impeachment trial where his members knew Trump’s guilt was absolute and unequivocal, he bribed and browbeat them into submission.
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I said Donald Trump could never be elected, confidently fueled by the empirical data of professional polling, a certainty in the vital necessity of field operations, and the knowledge his own campaign team (even on the night of the election) was ratting out the shambolic train wreck his campaign had been. I was wrong.
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All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society.
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No bully – and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever – is ever satisfied with just one day’s worth of your lunch money.
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Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
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As a Republican governor, a senator, or member of Congress, or as a Republican candidate, let me remind you: You’re known by the company you keep. By associating yourself with or endorsing Trump, you own Trump’s toxic radioactivity with voters outside his base.
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No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.
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Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they’re wrong.
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Donald Trump’s racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.
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FISA targets those who are ‘agents of a foreign power.’
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As much as progressives hate the Electoral College – and we can argue its flaws all day long – in 2020, the Electoral College is the only game in town. There’s not going to be some miracle where it’s not the rule book. The winner of the Electoral College is president. Doesn’t matter how many popular votes you get.
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American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace, and many in between, we’ve sampled the populist temptation, often in times of national distress and dislocation.
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I’m going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.
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It’s not a secret that Ted Cruz isn’t my first choice for the Republican nomination for president. His smug Poindexter affect, his smarm, sanctimony, and general derpiness all grate on me. There’s no doubt he’s smart, but while smart is necessary, it’s not necessarily sufficient.
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Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.
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I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.
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Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome,

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.
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Because Donald Trump has to destroy everything in his path, why not the true history of 9/11?
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The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.
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With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta is always broad. If Trump said it was the best, it was average. If he said something was the finest, it typically included a spray-painted gold veneer.
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In politics, Victory Disease comes when a majority believes their position is so secure and immune from challenge that they forget the lessons of the past and can’t imagine an outcome that isn’t in their favor. Neither party is inoculated against it.
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There’s a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.
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The delta between who I am on Twitter and in real life is zero.
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I think Trump is so dangerous because the people that he appeals to the most have this sense of despair and oppression that has become a central defining characteristic of their lives. And they feel like only he is their avatar; only he will fight for them; only he will keep the wolf from the proverbial door.
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Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it’s never Trump’s responsibility. It’s never Trump’s fault.
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As Trump’s mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.
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Trump’s 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so the rotating cast of campaign managers didn’t really matter.
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Donald Trump’s campaign is good at two things; hoovering up hundreds of millions of dollars from MAGA fans and spending them to move his poll numbers… nowhere.
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I always advise my candidates, ‘You better fight to the last bullet.’
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Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
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I believed that the donor class would cringe at the vast threat Donald Trump poses to the entire Republican Party, its brand, its prospects for expansion, and the nation.
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If there’s one thing no one will ever mistake Ted Cruz for, it’s a charismatic cult leader. Cruz scans more as the accountant for the charismatic cult leader than the guy ladling out the Kool Aid.
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I’ve knocked out any number of Democrats using ads associating them with the brand toxicity of Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, and before that Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, and others.
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I believed that the numbers and processes of modern campaigning that revolve around the meticulous use of data would matter in 2016. I believed Trump was merely a spectacle, a political sideshow who would be dispatched by the well-funded and the well-staffed major campaigns.
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Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike.
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When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
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Donald Trump is an idiot and a moron and just a kook of the first order, but he is surrounded by a bunch of guys like me, who are ride-or-die for him. They don’t love him ideologically, but they’re stuck. And they’re very smart. And they’re very determined and they will do anything to win.
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Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen intellect and work ethic.
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I’m not a squishy liberal Republican.
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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and others who raced to the microphones at the slightest hint of Obama overstepping the lines were damn quiet as Trump wildly colored outside the lines of any rational version of executive power.
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