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Trump Quotes by Rick Wilson

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Rick Wilson’s 60 observations on Trump read like a seasoned commentator’s notebook—direct, unapologetic, and laced with experience. He tackles the former president’s legacy from multiple angles, giving fans a solid sense of his analytical style.

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As Trump's mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.

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I'm not a squishy liberal Republican.

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Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.

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Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

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Trump is always Trump, and never, ever improves.

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Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.

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Trump 'accomplishments' are ephemeral, coincidental and accidental.

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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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If Trump claimed something was the most luxurious, it was likely a dank, low-end casino in Atlantic City.

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Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.

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Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.

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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…

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Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.

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A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of 'conservative' was simply 'Not Hillary.'

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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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As a Republican governor, a senator, or member of Congress, or as a Republican candidate, let me remind you: You're known by…

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In 1974, Democrats gained 49 House seats and four Senate seats. It wasn't just the Watergate scandal that drove Democratic wins, but…

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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…

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For Trump, there's always a dark conspiracy arrayed against him. Someone is always doing him an injustice by not treating him with…

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Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government…

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I will not vote for Hillary, and I will not vote for Trump. At the end of the day, I believe that…

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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…

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It's become a cliche to stare in mute horror at Donald Trump's endless stream of Twitter vomit, wondering what chthonic god finds…

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Every man who has sat in the Oval Office has felt the short, sharp shock when an ordinary day in the highest…

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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…

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In a depressing twist, many members of my party and ideological persuasion have become advocates for Donald Trump on a scale that…

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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…

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I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.

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Long sentence or short, everything Trump touches dies - even his most loyal henchman.

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Democrats are holistically bad at politics. They don't know how to fight in the way Republicans do.

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Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.

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It's not that I mind fighting with Trump's cheer squad... it's that it's so rarely a fair fight.

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Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.

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There are no points for civility or decency when it comes to prosecuting the campaign against Donald Trump.

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Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.

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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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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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FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'

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Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to…

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Barack Obama basically ran as a liberal suburban Republican.

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Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.

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Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008…

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Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.

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