Rick Wilson Quotes

Rick Wilson

Profession : Author

Birth : November 21, 1963

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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Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.

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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, like many cult leaders, understands the power his words will have over the minds and actions of his followers... but few cult leaders have a pet media infrastructure.

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Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.

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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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The delta between who I am on Twitter and in real life is zero.

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For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.

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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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No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

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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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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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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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Only a fool would believe Trump would draw a sharp, bright line between his personal and family financial interests and the interests of the nation.

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Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it's always something.

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I'm not afraid of what people say about me. I don't care if people say, 'You're an awful person.'

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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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Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

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Before the GOP became the party of Trump's gangster capitalism, they weren't perfect capitalists, but they at least paid lip service to the power of markets and capitalism.

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Trump devotees don't care about shrinking the size and scope of government. They don't care about the Constitution. They're not Republicans, except as a flag of convenience.

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