Rick Wilson: Trump's "fuck-you swagger" & "Mighty Bullshit Wurlitzer" now "Fuhrerbunker panic"

[Miles Archer]

“The gap between what’s happening to Trump in the real world and what happens inside the soft fantasy bubble of the Trump Matrix is vast and widening,” wrote Wilson. “It’s harder and harder to deny his peril. For a long time, Trump and his followers had a kind of fuck-you swagger, confident his Mighty Bullshit Wurlitzer would always overcome truth, decency, the law, and the rules of political physics. This week, they have abandoned that tone for one of screechy belligerence edged with Fuhrerbunker panic.”

“The purpose of Gaetz and his frat rats wasn’t to bring the facts to light, or to expose some nefarious behavior by the Democrats and Republicans on the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry, who were in the SCIF hearing the testimony of yet another fact witness in what is now absolutely established as a quid pro quo in Donald Trump’s attempt to extort the Ukrainian government,” wrote Wilson. “Their dumb stunt — ‘light treason,’ as my friend Molly Jong-Fast calls it — wasn’t to pin down imaginary Deep State liars. It was a pathetic distraction, the work of a few minutes to try to put a Band-Aid on the boo-boo of Donald Trump’s fragile, shaken ego and confidence, all while compromising national security and attempting to intimidate witnesses.”

“In the Senate, Mitt Romney is making trouble of the best kind, John Thune is signaling his unease, and Mitch McConnell refused to back Trump’s lie that he blessed the content of the infamous Zelensky call where the American tried to extort his Ukrainian counterpart,” he wrote. “The polling and fundraising collapse in key GOP Senate races for 2020 has McConnell pondering the ultimate triage: saving the majority by sacrificing the President.”

“The panic in the Republican Party is palpable, and delicious,” concluded Wilson. “Trump will grow more angry that the Senate isn’t immolating itself to support him. The House GOP and the Trump media apparatus will demand louder noises, more distractions, more Trump-hadi tactics in support of a President who has already poisoned their future. It’s going to be loud, and very, very ugly.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/ukraine-clown-posse-rick-wilson-revels-in-trumps-misery-after-his-idiotic-plan-to-smear-biden-falls-apart/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ukraine-clown-posse-sounds-like-shit

[Aristus]

1. "Fuhrerbunker panic".

Couldn't have said it better myself...

[Miles Archer]

2. It's pretty apt.

Rage and paranoia and megalomania and narcissism and a persecution complex, looking for an escape hatch.

And no, I don't believe McConnell is QUITE ready to cut the cord, but he also has another YEAR to weigh the value of going down on the good ship Individual 1, or taking a deep breath and greasing the wheels for president Pence. His denial of having ANY conversation with Trump over the Ukraine call, let alone Trump's assertion that he said it was "the most innocent call he'd ever heard," may not SOUND like a lot, but it IS...McConnell signaling that he's "IN" as long as he gets his judges, but hey...what would change for McConnell with Pence? NOTHING.

[mopinko]

3. and

palpable, and delicious

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Yes, that captures it.

[Pachamama]

26. "Das war ein Befehl"

Yep - it’s definitely Führerbunker panic.....

https://m.

[Hekate]

5. Can hardly wait for Rick Wilson's next book. Meanwhile, these bits are scrumptious.

[orangecrush]

6. It's already getting ugly

[ProudProgressiveNow]

7. KR NT

[maxsolomon]

8. McConnell's letting Graham's bullshit attack on the procedure move through the Senate, however.

Wilson is fun to read, but we keep slipping further into Autocracy every day.

[jayschool2013]

12. Yes. NT

[BamaRefugee]

9. Rick Wilson continues to work furiously to get more Republicans elected...I don't get the adulation

[maxsolomon]

15. Is he working on GOP campaigns now?

Which ones?

[BamaRefugee]

18. Not sure, but Lawrence O'Donnell always introduces him as a "Republican strategist". Present tense.

And his own website describes him as "Rick Wilson is a seasoned Republican political strategist and infamous negative ad-maker." Again, present tense.
I do know he worked to get George H W Bush elected, Rudy Giuliani elected, Connie Mack in Florida, and others, and was employed by former Shadow President of the USA Dick Cheney.
Don't see any progressive thinking employers on his resume', writes a column for Daily Beast, which I know little about, what I've seen on it though seemed right leaning.

To me, he seems like a 1945 German snickering about the Fuehrer while grooming a Hitler Youth contingent.

I do enjoy him ripping Trump, but I don't see him as a Democratic hero in any way.

[Arazi]

19. His work is typically with R smear campaigns and negative advertising

[Miles Archer]

21. Well, speaking as the person who posted this, I don't adore him

He's a "Republican strategist."

If any Republican other than Trump had been elected, he'd still be a "vocal Republican strategist."

I've never seen a shred of evidence suggesting he's trying to pretend he's something that he's not.

He's smart enough to know that after Trump leaves office, what's left of the Republican party won't "snap back" immediately, if at all.

I'm assuming that once Trump's gone, he'll return to being a full-time "Republican strategist."

That doesn't mean that there's no validity in what he's saying right now, and I don't have Rick Wilson posters tacked up all over my walls.

If you can read his work and find "Republican talking points," show them to me, and I'll be the first to admit that he's pushing "Republican talking points."

The concept of "adulation" for Rick Wilson is equal to the mindless devotion the MAGAts have for Trump.

I have a brain, and I have powers of discernment. Apparently that didn't come across in my post.

[BamaRefugee]

24. Sorry for any misunderstanding. My reply wasn't directed at you, more a statement of bemusement

At so many posts I see here that portray RW as “one of us”.
His dislike of Trump doesn’t mean that he doesn’t lend support to people who may be almost as heinous, but they’re just a lot more stealthy about it.

[struggle4progress]

10. "Berlin will be saved by Army Detachment Steiner!"

[Celerity]

23. +10000

[rainin]

11. This gives me a mixture of pleasure and fear.

I would enjoy this drama as a movie. Real life? Not so much.

[catbyte]

13. He does have a way with words. I wish he batted for our team full time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. "ultimate triage: saving the Majority by sacrificing the President". Gotta make sure Rs go down w T.

[Aviation Pro]

16. Mighty Bullshit Wurlitzer

LMMFAO. I'm stealing that.

[wiggs]

17. We are about to see how a corrupt president will use the vast powers of the presidency,

combined with a willingness to stoop lower than anyone ever has, to lie and cheat his way past consequences for stunning misconduct before, during, and after his illegitimate election.

The stakes are very very high and he has many powerful tools to use. This is the beginning of an epic battle and it's not yet clear how it will turn out

[CatWoman]

20. k; r

[Karadeniz]

22. I feast on his neverTrump tirades!

[NCLefty]

27. I could listen to NeverTrumpers ALL. DAY. LONG.

As long as they're railing against Trump and his crime syndicate. But once they start going on about "conservative" things... I'm out. I fear for the day Trump is gone. Goodbye, Rick! Goodbye, Steve! etc... :p

[RainCaster]

28. Not me! Although I derive some occasional pleasure from seeing their discomfort

Mostly, it's not worth my time to sit through so many RW talking points just to see the whiny end point.

[Cha]

25. "Fuhrerbunker panic"!

[ElementaryPenguin]

29. Rick Wilson is a master at bashing the bejesus out of Trump!

And his "Everything Trump Touches Dies" is the best titled Trump bashing book.

I obviously don't like Wilson's politics, but that won't cause me to deny these facts!