Rick Wilson Breaks It Down and Looks Ahead - Talking Feds

[Rhiannon12866]

Harry sits down with Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project and a former Republican political strategist who did as much as anyone to warn the country of the dangers of a Trump presidency, including creating and distributing a dazzling series of ads that brought home Trump’s essential know-nothingness, hypocrisy, and wickedness.

The two begin with a discussion of whether in retrospect the election was winnable for Harris-Walz, or whether the forces that propelled Trump’s victory were in retrospect insuperable. Wilson analyzes the result in terms of the media ecosystem that the extreme right has constructed and made common cause with since 2008 and especially since Covid. Penetrating that ecosystem is the chief task going forward, but it is way easier said than done. Trump’s likely stumbles as President will provide some headway and perhaps provide openings for the Democrats to take back one of the Houses of Congress in 2026.

But the immediate and pressing issue is whether Trump will use his virtually unchecked power to move the country towards autocracy along the model of say, Turkey, in a way that history demonstrates is very hard to reverse. That leaves little choice of patriots, who might well have been looking forward to a resumption of normal life and normal politics, than to continue to fight day to day and month to month against the coming waves of abuses of governmental power. - 11/14/2024.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Rick Wilson is the only pundit piercing our intellectual bubble with solid action

We fought the campaign with logic. Our emotions were kind, not combative. Even Steve Schmidt was an intellectual shriek. Wilson understands the need for evocative, emotional confrontation. In my view he is the man for stiff resistance to Trumpism. Hope Democratic leaders connect with him and get some hardball political tutelage. (See the intellectualism there? lol.) Rick Wilson will teach us how to fight!

[Aaeia]

2. Greed & Selfishness

I have listened to so many diatribes of "what went wrong" & NOT one has spoken the obvious. What went wrong is; America was, has and is founded on GREED & SELFISHNESS.

There is no secret formula. And the truth is the GREEDIEST & the most SELFISH won this election.

It is greed that has bankrupted this country of all moral values. It is selfishness that robs your neighbours of any assistance or education.

Harris & Walz ran a near perfect campaign but it was Americans self interest that defeated them.

So. This very greed & selfishness is about to take a grand country down. Well. Maybe it's about time if it wakes Americans up to the fact there are other people & countries that matter on this planet besides themselves.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. Asolutely, Aaeia!

Harris & Walz ran a near perfect campaign but it was Americans self interest that defeated them.