Now, I don’t give money to The Lincoln Project.
Don’t support The Lincoln Project.
But, since he is one of the snakes, he knows the other snakes, and I read his feed to get the pulse on the snakes from the other side.
This is his take on the current GOP Presidential Campaign.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:21 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
1/ Given the new NYT/Sienna poll, I’d just like to remind you one more time that spending money to defeat Trump in the primary is burning through donor resources that will be desperately needed in the general election.In this, there are three schools of thought, all wrong.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:23 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
2/ The first school of thought is that Ron DeSantis can be magically elevated to surpass Trump. There’s a LOT of Republican (and some Dem-leaning) donor money trying to make this point.If DeSantis wasn’t in the lower quartile of warmth, connection, personality, humanity..
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:25 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
3/ …you might almost squint and see the case. However, we learned in 2016 that “being a conservative governor” vs Trump is worth exactly nothing. As we speak, the ocean of donor money DeSantis took in is now Jeff Roe’s slush fund.Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:26 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
4/ This money will go to Youngkin next, and Roe is already planning it. Sorry, Ron. You knew Jeff was a snake before you took him in.This Establishment lane strategy vs Trump died in 2016. Trust me, I was there to call TOD.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:29 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
5/ The next futile track is “But X is a bold truth-teller.”OK, I can’t say I’m not happy to see Asa, Christie, and Will Hurd flensing Trump. I’m delighted. any flicker of light in the chthonic gloom of the GOP’s moral midnight is better than nothing.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:34 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
6/ But add up all the people telling the truth about the criminal master mind who runs the GOP and you get to 1/2 of a DeSantis.They’re rounding error. Put a billion behind them, and they’re still rounding error. Will future generations remember them? I hope so…
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:35 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
7/ …Will Hurd particularly. Christie will never wash the stink of Trump off him.The GOP base in our polling, and literally every public and private poll I’ve seen does not give a damn about the truth viz Trump. At. All.
Zero. Nada.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:38 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
8/ The final group of people are trying to weaken Trump by calling him a loser (he is), political poison (he is), a criminal (QED, everything), and a weak man who will lose to Joe Biden are hoping against hope that moral or political suasion will reform the GOP base.Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:42 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
9/ The base is irredeemable. They can only be changed by destroying the GOP as it exists today. No ad strategy, alternate candidate, impassioned op-ed, or heartfelt speech will reclaim them from the spell of Trump, Fox, and Facebook.Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:44 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
10/ They’re not economically anxious. They’re not the Forgotten Workin’ Man. They’re not Ordinary Folks Who Just Don’t Like All These Progressives Ideas.They’re willing members of an authoritarian personality cult. They’ve bent and sworn.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:46 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
11/ The approach we’re taking is to keep splitting off the parts of the base (a narrow path, to be sure, but one we’ve walked in 2020 and 2022) is to make Trump morally, politically, aesthetically, and socially poison.It’s not a secret how we do it.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:48 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
12/ It worked in 2020 and in 2022.LP is an antibody in the traditional system. Trump hates us passionately, and so do our former friends in the GOP who still desperately want to be put back in the Matrix and have their old world back.
So do some gentry Never Trumpers.
Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted at 7:51 AM on Mon, Jul 31, 2023:
13/ Hoping to either create a new movement to steal the GOP away from Trump, or praying for some improbably exogenous event to take him out are theories disproven by 2016 and beyond.We’re setting up for the general election campaign. That’s the battle. That’s the moment.
End.
13/ Hoping to either create a new movement to steal the GOP away from Trump, or praying for some improbably exogenous event to take him out are theories disproven by 2016 and beyond.
We're setting up for the general election campaign. That's the battle. That's the moment.
End.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 31, 2023
Between this and the news from this weekend – the public admission that Dolt45 has been scamming the rubes in order to pay for his legal bills.
The rubes have been rubing to the tune of 60 million dollars.
Not my money. I don’t care. And, every dollar they send to Dolt45 are $$$ not going to the RNC.