Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn't for you - that Trump is about Trump. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism. — Rick Wilson Capitalism Copy Share Image
Long sentence or short, everything Trump touches dies - even his most loyal henchman. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Democrats are holistically bad at politics. They don't know how to fight in the way Republicans do. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
If you think Barr's Justice Department will take a single step to confront Trump or his cronies with any kind of challenge,… — Rick Wilson Justice Copy Share Image
Only a fool would believe Trump would draw a sharp, bright line between his personal and family financial interests and the interests… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and… — Rick Wilson Day Copy Share Image
We should tell the honest, painful stories of 9/11 because it dishonors the memory of heroes to invent a phony cast of… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Part of the sales pitch for the Trump campaign is their unique, esoteric secret sauce based on a rabid cult following motivated… — Rick Wilson Cult Copy Share Image
Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class… — Rick Wilson Class Copy Share Image
I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
As consequential and as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic has been, and will continue to be, the Trump media machine can't stop… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
In a depressing twist, many members of my party and ideological persuasion have become advocates for Donald Trump on a scale that… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I said Donald Trump could never be elected, confidently fueled by the empirical data of professional polling, a certainty in the vital… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and others who raced to the microphones at the slightest hint of Obama overstepping the lines… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
As much as progressives hate the Electoral College - and we can argue its flaws all day long - in 2020, the… — Rick Wilson Day Copy Share Image
There's an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an idiot and a moron and just a kook of the first order, but he is surrounded by a… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
In politics, Victory Disease comes when a majority believes their position is so secure and immune from challenge that they forget the… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
For Trump, there's always a dark conspiracy arrayed against him. Someone is always doing him an injustice by not treating him with… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Trump's 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that Republicans are going to deeply, fundamentally, and profoundly regret the way that they have - the way Trump has… — Rick Wilson Democracy Copy Share Image
Before the GOP became the party of Trump's gangster capitalism, they weren't perfect capitalists, but they at least paid lip service to… — Rick Wilson Capitalism Copy Share Image
All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society. — Rick Wilson Economy Copy Share Image
All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work for decades. It was… — Rick Wilson Family Copy Share Image
Con artists specialize in finding what people need, and Trump knows the media craves variety, scandal, secrets, and he-said-she-said stories, even of… — Rick Wilson Art Copy Share Image
The first two weeks of Donald Trump's Presidency made it clear: Trump's Gonna Trump. No newfound dignity for him. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and… — Rick Wilson Heroism Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen… — Rick Wilson Dark Copy Share Image
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure… — Rick Wilson Deception Copy Share Image