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Date: September 17, 2024 at 15:24:32
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Ex-GOP strategist slams demands to stop criticizing Trump |
URL: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rick-wilson/ |
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(...or, put better as the full title does: 'If the
jackboot fits, wear it': Ex-GOP strategist slams demands
to stop criticizing Trump)
It's hard to put into words the degree to which this
boils my blood... Glad this guy found a few...
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Former President Donald Trump and his supporters are
coalescing around a narrative that Vice President Kamala
Harris and her supporters are at fault for two
assassination plots against him, by criticizing his
character and saying he's dangerous for democracy. Rep.
Byron Donalds (R-FL) even demanded that Harris take down
all references to Project 2025 from ads in swing states
for Trump's safety.
This is complete nonsense, Lincoln Project co-founder and
former Republican strategist Rick Wilson wrote on his
Substack — and Democrats should ignore the demands.
"The emerging MAGA conflation that every criticism of
Donald Trump is a call for his assassination is a
logical, moral, and political fallacy of the most
sublimely stupid nature, a false equivalence so
profoundly wrong in every dimension that only the people
with a political death wish (and, perhaps, the American
media) could buy it," wrote Wilson. "They say calling
Trump what he is — a pendant authoritarian, a convicted
criminal, an enabler of the worst and most dangerous
elements of our body politic — constitutes a death
threat, not a description. Sorry, MAGA, but if the
jackboot fits, wear it: he is an authoritarian, a
statist, a racist, an aspiring fascist, a hateful,
mendacious, corrupt traitor, a fool, mentally ill, and
frankly evil."
The fact is, Wilson wrote, Harris has not at any point
called for violence against Trump. The former president,
on the other hand, frequently does precisely that with
people he disagrees.
Trump has regularly called for using state and supporter
power against critics, Wilson said, "from his
yokelspringa rallies to the Oval Office." That includes
Trump's call to shoot peaceful protesters in Lafayette
Square Park and his comments about "Second Amendment
people" taking out Hillary Clinton.
"Trump, J.D. Vance, and their allies are engaged in the
rhetorical precursors to violence as I write this with
their baseless attacks on legal Haitian immigrants in
Springfield, Ohio," said Wilson.
"You claim that talking about Trump, Project 2025, his
debate loss, his grotesque, sweaty relationship with 9/11
truther and madwoman Laura Loomer, his dementia,
infirmity, and word-salad glossolalia are like shouting
'fire' in the proverbial crowded theater," wrote Wilson.
He then proceeded to enumerate other GOP demands about
how to handle Trump — and rejected them one by one.
"You demand our silence. I refuse," he wrote, repeatedly.
Meanwhile, said Wilson, "You threaten us, dox us, SWAT
us, call us criminals, communists, pedophiles, and
murderers, and demand we meekly accept your lies and
slanders. You threaten our families and loved ones and
demand we accept your terms. And at that, and once more
with feeling, I absolutely refuse."
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Date: September 18, 2024 at 09:53:07
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ex-GOP strategist slams demands to stop criticizing Trump |
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I agree with Wilson in this instance. What Trump wants,
is what he always wants...no one criticizing him.
It's why he wants journalists arrested.
It's why he wants political opponents arrested.
it's why he's even tried to sue and have Rick Wilson
arrested.
According to Rick (I listen to his podcast on
occasion), Maga followers have doxed him and his family
and swatted his home three times (or attempted to).
This is how Trump operates. "Haitians are eating cats
and dogs"..he is knowingly targeting LEGAL immigrants
in Springfield.
Recently he posted on Truth Social, "I hate Taylor
Swift"...another signal for his base to attack Taylor.
And his best example, January 6th.
He hasn't stopped.
He's priming his base, the worst part of it, to be
violent and attack those who criticize him, attack him
or even disagree with him. He has his own militia,
since he no longer has generals and an army.
He's directing them actually saying the words that
would get him arrested (again).
He and that segment of his base is the most violent,
hateful threat to our constitution, our country, our
citizens and yes, even to himself.
The latest crazy who had planned to take a pot shot at
him, turns out to be a registered republican (a never
trumper one, to be sure) who voted for him the first
time...then was given permission to act violent during
Trump's first campaign (which no doubt attracted him),
then turned it against him when Trump wasn't behaving
as he liked.
He's given permission for that segment of his base to
be violent against his enemies, then blames the other
side when it's turned back upon himself by people who
used to be one of them.
True, these are mentally ill people so far doing
this...but he attracts those too.
He's stoking his base even harder with the latest
rhetoric. If just immigrants after your wives and jobs
and homes isn't enough, well maybe if they eat your
pets you'll be willing to kill them. Is that what it'll
take to get his base violent for him?
Doesn't matter if the claim is true..he's handing them
reasons why violence is justified (true or not).
Because, when he loses the vote..he's going to try to
go around the elections (which is why his campaigning
is slowing down on the road and he tells his base it
doesn't matter if they vote or not)..claiming their
rigged, again..will try to go for non-certification
(which the other side already knows about, and is
planning for to combat) and the court systems (again,
the other side is ready)...and then all this violence
grooming will be called on again as his last
play...again.
It'll probably be his waterloo.
No one wants to see that, well, no same person does.
But it appears that's what he's planning no matter
what.
Even if he wins..his troops will go out and justify
violence against the groups he's tagged, his opponents
politically, journalists who dare criticize him and in
the end, anyone that doesn't bow down to him as their
supreme leader and agree that he's holding up 3
fingers, when he's really holding up 4.
That won't go well either.
It has never gone well for leaders like him. History is
fully of violent endings for these people at the hands
of other countries, or their own people.
Project 2025 is Trump Mein Kompf. No one believes he
doesn't know anything about it, it was written for him
with his blessing.
yeah, while he calles Harris a fascist and a commie
(first, those two things are opposite extremes--he
thinks his base is stupid), he's running the fascist
playbook down to the letter.
Wilson is right in this instance.
And we all better overwhelming vote in November to help
stop his plan b and c, and hope he's in jail by the
time the last part of his plan is called for.
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Date: September 18, 2024 at 09:56:03
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ex-GOP strategist slams demands to stop criticizing Trump |
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