Republican Strategist Rick Wilson: Dark Politics In The Age Of Trump

Rick Wilson is a seasoned Republican political strategist and self-proclaimed infamous negative ad maker.
His regular column with The Daily Beast is a must-read in the political community, and he’s widely published in The Washington Post, Politico and The Hill. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, Wilson brings his dark humor and biting analysis to what he calls the “absurdity of American politics in the Age of Trump.”
Come hear this lifelong conservative’s views of a Republican Party that he says “has abandoned its principles” and what that bodes for the future of the country.
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  • @frankihauser4126
    @frankihauser41262 жыл бұрын

    I'm watching this in 2022. He called it EXACTLY as it happened.

  • @TonymanCS
    @TonymanCS2 жыл бұрын

    This guy should be hired as Dem strategist. He pointed out Dems' weaknesses very well.

  • @LexTalionis23

    @LexTalionis23

    2 жыл бұрын

    They should be constantly taking notes, YES!

  • @papaboom

    @papaboom

    7 ай бұрын

    @@LexTalionis23 HE is a never-Trumper - so he probably is (albeit secretly) work for Democrats in 2020 and 2024.

  • @rcg9573
    @rcg95733 жыл бұрын

    Man, what Wilson said over a year ago makes him look like Nostradamus when he talked about Trump’s inability to deal with any serious economic crisis or other crisis should it ever hit the US...... wow.....

  • @taq1238

    @taq1238

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't doubt his brilliance but, on those points it was fairly obvious.

  • @beedee9534

    @beedee9534

    2 жыл бұрын

    Him and Malcom Nance are the Best

  • @ToolFist598

    @ToolFist598

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol well how are the democrats handling our current economic crisis? Not very well since they caused it intentionally. I could actually afford to get gas and groceries without needing a bank loan when trump was president. Not so much with the ignorant far left running this country into the ground. But yeah keep listening to this guy.... Didn't his little group recently get arrested for being pedos? Shocking

  • @hamilton7798

    @hamilton7798

    Жыл бұрын

    If only someone could have made that prediction for biden…too bad. Now we are all suffering.

  • @joycedominguez1828

    @joycedominguez1828

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hamilton7798 really? How are you suffering? Do you need employment? Are you hungry? Do you have a place to live? Are you ill? Do you need health insurance?

  • @davidbentley4731
    @davidbentley47312 жыл бұрын

    This has aged well, but has been even more prescient than he could possibly imagine.

  • @letXeqX

    @letXeqX

    8 ай бұрын

    Even better now....

  • @rudydborboa1098
    @rudydborboa10985 жыл бұрын

    Bravo! Bravo Rick. As a liberal who works hard to model and engage in civil (if at times heated) discourse, this is refreshing in it's direct, honest, and delivered in an intelligent, humorous, and incredibly easy manner that could only come from One comfortable in their own shoes. I tip my hat and my glass sir.

  • @elizabethramos5536
    @elizabethramos55364 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson, I am so amazed that your genius has not been tapped. You're needed to educate American educators. Rick, many people are living in the 50's. Thank you so much for your candor and truth.

  • @janiceeinhorn3790

    @janiceeinhorn3790

    2 жыл бұрын

    In all the programs , please put the actual recording date on it & leave it there for the duration of the program ‼️. I am glad to have heard Rick Wilson. He seems to really know his stuff. Thanks for giving me the perspective of Republicans that are not Trumpers. I am also sorry to hear about the death threats. It just goes to prove Trump is a dictator wannabe. He should have been impeached and he should be convicted of treasonous acts. Most of the republicans that are kissing Trump's ring should be ashamed of themselves. I think they've ruined their careers. It's unbelievable that they could stoop so low. They have no intention of helping the American people unless they are rich or are a big corporation. I hope I live long enough to find out how history is treating them. Some of them should be tarred & feathered. Thank God they never defeated Obama Care. They never came up with a new insurance plan even though they tried & are still trying to get rid of Obama Care. It must be terrible for them to be so jealous & defeated.

  • @kevnwarriner8819

    @kevnwarriner8819

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@janiceeinhorn3790 This was from the 25th of October 2018, Janice..

  • @2bentnails

    @2bentnails

    2 жыл бұрын

    Janiceoi Einhorn

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind60724 жыл бұрын

    I'm a liberal social-democratic European, but I can absolutely listen to this one, suddenly a half hour have passed, and I'm a little bit less afraid of the madness happening in USA.

  • @elvenkind6072

    @elvenkind6072

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ghill88 I understand, and on the other side of the Atlantic, as a tiny nation, part of NATO, that those very powers are so ready to toss away, is also something that have made me myself terrified of what's been going on in the USA. I know that if ever the Cold War would get really HOT, the armies of the Soviet/Russia, would pass through my nation. So what's happening in your country, is very much relevant for what's happening in my own. God bless you and yours.

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ghill88 We are very afraid of Trumpism....but we are now learning about the danger we face....and we are fighting back! No guarantees, but I have faith in democracy and the rule of law...As an African American, I have plenty of experience in struggling for democracy....we are winning, that's the reason for this backlash 😏🤗😚😒😎

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@elvenkind6072 Thank you for sharing this....we are on different continents, and in different countries...hut we are all solidily on the same planet! We are each other's keeper!

  • @jc.1191

    @jc.1191

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@elvenkind6072 The danger is still there in the US. But I think NATO countries are pretty safe under the EU security umbrella. They have superiority in conventional forces to push out a Russian invasion. There's even a nuclear deterrent with France and potentially the UK. Any autocrat coming into your country will be blasted right back out, especially with air power.

  • @semajsga
    @semajsga3 жыл бұрын

    35:10 hits a lot harder watching this in post election 2020

  • @marthalucas1221
    @marthalucas1221 Жыл бұрын

    Good needed discussion gentlemen. Thank you. So refreshing to hear adults discuss politics with intelligence and empathy. America deserves nothing less.👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🙏

  • @gomey70
    @gomey704 жыл бұрын

    Jesus, this guy is an absolute savage. If these are the kind of insightful, smart people the Reps are kicking to the curb, it's their loss.

  • @dawnderrick8057

    @dawnderrick8057

    2 жыл бұрын

    U5.

  • @MarieButson

    @MarieButson

    2 жыл бұрын

    O h yeah. Rick is very insightful with a great deal of insight having been in the Republican Party and communicates well the danger we face.

  • @beedee9534

    @beedee9534

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson explain Treason

  • @markmulfinger

    @markmulfinger

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes bf s bb

  • @markmulfinger

    @markmulfinger

    2 жыл бұрын

    He’s a shallow accuser, heavy on generalization s and light on facts. He accuses Us of room temperature intelligence well having the audacity to usher in Biden as a viable alternative.

  • @eaflores1498
    @eaflores14982 жыл бұрын

    Love the candor of Rick Wilson, plain speaking at it’s best. A big thank you for his perspective.

  • @yesyou6503
    @yesyou65032 жыл бұрын

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    @commonwealthclubworldaffairs

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @Marielenas
    @Marielenas4 жыл бұрын

    Wherever you see a bully look for the COWARDS!

  • @neillynch_ecocidologist

    @neillynch_ecocidologist

    4 жыл бұрын

    Is this the thread for posting any old garbage, Marielena? Aramis?

  • @keithshaw219

    @keithshaw219

    4 жыл бұрын

    Give me a break you want to see a bullie. Kind of the White House. We need somebody bigger somebody smarter. That's how you defeat a bully

  • @melissafeldman2624
    @melissafeldman26242 жыл бұрын

    I’m watching this show on 12/28/2021 and Rick was spot on 👍

  • @ATMHXD
    @ATMHXD4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Rick, after super Tuesday it looks like someone might have listened.

  • @rebeccajohnson8579
    @rebeccajohnson85795 жыл бұрын

    WOW, WHAT A GREAT CONVERSATION! THANK YOU RICK WILSON!

  • @MsKayla130
    @MsKayla1305 жыл бұрын

    Rick is fantastic. Will buy his book. I'm not an American, however It is disturbing seeing the damage trump is causing to democracy. Can’t wait for it to be over and he is out of office..

  • @lisas44

    @lisas44

    3 жыл бұрын

    @defcon six yeah he sounds like a rino. I'd be willing to listen more if he didn't cone off as an elitist snob.

  • @sandyleonard4780

    @sandyleonard4780

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s what’s so sad; Trump did not win the 2020 election; but the stupid media keeps him on TV and internet and he loves it!!!

  • @kevnwarriner8819

    @kevnwarriner8819

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sandyleonard4780 Look, if they didn't report what the Tangerine Hitler was doing then people would be complaining if he managed to incite another Insurrection, and it's the same with the Radical Right Extremists, there's plenty of people that keep saying don't talk about them and yet the traffic on the Right Wing Facebook sites and Parlour was really busy planning another violent protest all the way up to three days before and then they changed their minds when people told them that it was a trap and if you listened to what Rick Wilson was saying about the Media not wanting to talk about Trump's Russian collusion and Corruption before he was elected ensured that the Tangerine Hitler was elected and most of his Russian Traitors went under the Radar too and there's a lot of Proud Boys getting involved in the School Board hearings where they are threatening the people on the School Boards and Doctors and nurses giving evidence at them

  • @kathyjones274

    @kathyjones274

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank God Trump is out of office. One thing is the republicants in the senate,many are as corrupt as the Teflon Donald,they remain in the senate as his mafia family. America is in trouble and Democrats better start being boulder with the other side.

  • @wanderingtravellerAB99

    @wanderingtravellerAB99

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lisas44 Yep, it's you who the book is about.

  • @Patrick77487
    @Patrick774875 жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed watching a GOP bulldog rip Trumpism to shreds.

  • @christopherbarrett6290

    @christopherbarrett6290

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me too Go Rick Wilson you rock

  • @Oneness100

    @Oneness100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Check out David Cay Johnston. He's a tax expert that's been following Trump around for over 25 years. he's a Republican that will tell you all of the dirt on Trump.

  • @laurienew31

    @laurienew31

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oneness100ppp

  • @laurienew31

    @laurienew31

    4 жыл бұрын

    Christopher Barrett l pop

  • @yolandadenny8692

    @yolandadenny8692

    4 жыл бұрын

    And all he is doing is giving the FACTS....not attacks.

  • @DS-ek4zz
    @DS-ek4zz5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Rick ... so nice to hear truth with facts. Thank you for trying to save our country's soul. You are not alone and WE THE PEOPLE SUPPORT YOU :)

  • @Creative-Chaos
    @Creative-Chaos2 жыл бұрын

    I'm listening to this as 2022 is right around the corner. Excellent interview. You predicted he was going to declare everything illegitimate regarding him losing the 2020 election although I think you were speaking about the 2018 elections.

  • @Snowland_Man
    @Snowland_Man3 жыл бұрын

    It's really happening as he said in 2020 now and shows his great knowledge of today's tribal America.

  • @ricklarson392
    @ricklarson3924 жыл бұрын

    You have to love these former Republican strategists who now denounce the Frankenstein Monster they helped to spawn

  • @jaixzz

    @jaixzz

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was always lucky not to "have to love" them

  • @Gwen2010ish

    @Gwen2010ish

    2 жыл бұрын

    Way better than the hypocrites who know what he knows and don’t denounce the monster.

  • @kyleg8098

    @kyleg8098

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Gwen2010ish leftists are hilarious

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kyleg8098 seditious are Russian assets...

  • @kyleg8098

    @kyleg8098

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@elaineburnett5230 still working with that Russian BS? Good…keep using it….the failure argument keeps failing

  • @drlarrymitchell
    @drlarrymitchell5 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson IS a Unicorn: a conservative who is NOT a liar.

  • @lisareed5669
    @lisareed56695 жыл бұрын

    Dear Rick Wilson, we told you so. The word is "deplorable."

  • @echt114

    @echt114

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Lisa Reed: Yes, Hillary was right. She also got 3 million more votes.

  • @kevnwarriner8819

    @kevnwarriner8819

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rick was telling people how bad Trump was in 2015, but only Hillary was listening 🙄

  • @clarkpalace

    @clarkpalace

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true

  • @keithshaw219
    @keithshaw2194 жыл бұрын

    This was very informative. The guy cuts through the crap. I can't afford book but I'm glad you showed this interview

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    May I suggest the local library 😒😚🤗😏😎

  • @lenzybluz4347
    @lenzybluz43475 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson, well done. Bravo

  • @andrewmathias1967
    @andrewmathias19672 жыл бұрын

    All hat and no cattle. I love that quote

  • @joeadams1225

    @joeadams1225

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too, says a lot eh?

  • @glendabarton45barton48
    @glendabarton45barton48 Жыл бұрын

    "Imagine cancer with legs" priceless about Steve Bannon

  • @AntonyC83
    @AntonyC834 жыл бұрын

    It’s strange watching this in June 2020.

  • @leslietyler1164

    @leslietyler1164

    3 жыл бұрын

    When he said that bit about how the "candidate needs to be novel, Trump is novel"... yeah he's novel alright, He is COVID-45! The Novel corona virus president.

  • @elselogan354

    @elselogan354

    3 жыл бұрын

    and stranger in October 2020. Why couldn't the virus have done to Trump what it has done to too many Americans!!

  • @laurenwalker1048

    @laurenwalker1048

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even stranger in December 2020

  • @dobnerk

    @dobnerk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@laurenwalker1048 And even stranger after January 6, 2020!

  • @hadawson72268

    @hadawson72268

    3 жыл бұрын

    How does it feel now after 1/6/21 and the after math ... why didn’t we take this more seriously

  • @sosaysthecaptain5580
    @sosaysthecaptain55804 жыл бұрын

    “We should be grateful we as a country have yet to face an actual foreign policy crisis or economic crisis.” 🤦‍♂️

  • @spo616

    @spo616

    4 жыл бұрын

    MarcAuger-how about our health(covid19) crisis? Bout o

  • @skwarepeg1068
    @skwarepeg1068 Жыл бұрын

    Watching this in 2022. This guy was spot on about everything, esp predicting how Trump would react to losing election, though he talked about the mid-terms during Trump’s presidency.

  • @MichaelJones-xx6xx
    @MichaelJones-xx6xx2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant and insightful! Wilson told us of the future three years ago.

  • @michaelcarroll9563
    @michaelcarroll95634 жыл бұрын

    I'm watching this during the pandemic now we have a REAL crisis for him to deal with

  • @lewishall6501

    @lewishall6501

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pornhub

  • @dobnerk

    @dobnerk

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm watching this on January 6, 2020 and now we REALLY have a crisis!

  • @JohnRay1969

    @JohnRay1969

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dobnerk Imagine watching in November 2021. I can't believe how spot on this man was about even the aftermath of Trump. He should be President.

  • @lauriebolles3149
    @lauriebolles31495 жыл бұрын

    "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be beieved." "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." "All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." Adolf Hitler, Trump's mentor and hero. Too many people were killed in the most horrific manner by Hitler's Third Reich and Nazi Party. If you thought Pearl Habor was bad, you still see the many scars left behind when you visit the British Isles and the European mainland. My sister and I visited Amsterdam when I was 19 (I'm now 65) and became more aware of the brutal and wicked atrocities inflicked on innocent people throughout Holland. If you have the opportunity to go to Amsterdam you must visit 'Ann Frank's House' and strike up a conversation with the older residents, you might just learn how to make 'Tulip Bulb Soup' and extend a half a loaf of bread to last a week. Please don't think that couldn't happen here, Germany was a Democratic Nation when Hitler came to power. "Bad things happen when good people do nothing" I believe that's how the saying goes. But I do know that sometimes good people when approached by an evil extreme, can't really absorb the negative energy right away. Take Trump, his Administration and the Republican Party seriously. Please go vote because that's the true strength of 'We the People' and take a moment to check with your Town/ City Clerk that you are registered to vote even if you have in the past. Remember NOV. 6th, or vote early.

  • @miggans21012

    @miggans21012

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had a 19 inch computer screen and was going through Google earth and it seemed like I was driving through there. I went to the German polish border on the screen and the German side was like normal scenery, different buildings similar to the states. When I went the polish side on my screen I could see on the fields all the mazes of buildings that had once been there. Almost all of western Poland was like that. It's like the communist just put buildings anywhere without really building over the buildings that had been destroyed. After all these years the scars of ww2 are still there. This was in 2013 I think.

  • @MargauxStewart

    @MargauxStewart

    2 жыл бұрын

    Laurie: What an EXTRAORDINARY Wise and Fine Human being YOU are ! We good Americans, as YOU Point Out, are just as vulnerable as Germans were at Hitler's political time. We have overcome the "Hitler wannabes", we have survived and restored OUR Values after too many MASS Atrocities recently. trSCUMp IS deadly serious about wanting to be another wannabe Hitler Tyrant ! His TREASONOUS Bullet barely missed OUR Democratic Brains! IT was the "Hand of GOD" that helped so many Americans "Do the Right Thing" on Jan. 6 th: General Milley stopping ALL Branches of OUR Armed Forces from obeying trSCUMp's I'll-legal demands; the Bravery of OUR Capital Police; V.P. Pence Standing Up to murderous trSCUMp, at the risk of losing his LIFE, and CERTIFYING the 2020 Presidential Election for Biden !

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well a lot of people listened to your great advice...now we need to make sure they stay committed to saving democracy....

  • @eastsidemoonwalker137
    @eastsidemoonwalker1372 жыл бұрын

    Going back and watching this….he’s speaking ALL FACTS THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW…..weird seeing a Republican WILLINGLY fighting against their OWN cult.

  • @estebansantiago2670

    @estebansantiago2670

    2 жыл бұрын

    As a Staunch conservative and constitutionalist while being a huge Trump supporter, this guy is the living embodiment of projection. I 100% call bullshit on his first story. No conservative in the audience would truly expect a fellow conservative to blindly follow anyone; ANYONE. Period. We are a peoples of open dialogue with staunch morale. Then after that bold opening fabrication, he trinkles in all the soft, lefty talking points that in no way describes a conservative. Just listen to his rhetoric; on par with a Bolshevik when opposed for being too radical. He called for a public flogging and re-education of someone he disagrees with for crying out loud. The cognitive dissonance and lack of fortitude to dive into self introspection is antithetical to Republican values. He is a RINO clear as day. True conservatives won’t have him for obvious reasons to us. No wonder he talks to crowds of sheep like this.

  • @skwarepeg1068

    @skwarepeg1068

    Жыл бұрын

    @@estebansantiago2670 When I first saw you comment, I thought it had to be from 3 years ago because nobody that’s paid any attention to Trump and the GOP since that time would ever make your comment. It’s well-known that Trump is obsessed with one-way loyalty. He always, always points the finger at someone else, but expects 100% loyalty in return. Name any perceived error on policy or an issue or a tweet or action ever that he has claimed was his responsibility? You can’t, because his responses are to deflect, blame, say “what about Hilary/Obama/Democrats/anyone else?” Or LIE. The entire governmental documents in Mar-A-Lago issue is perfectly representative of this. Anyone who has “opposed” Trump, refuted elections deniers, suggested anything less than perfection - has been censured by the party, lost power or their seat, been called out by the party in some way - especially as a RINO. 🙄🤣 The party you are describing is long gone.

  • @mannapat1
    @mannapat15 жыл бұрын

    Now I understand why I see this guy on MSNBC . This is the decent, intelligent man who's my Grandfather's Republican. Welcome!

  • @KGray-vt2mp

    @KGray-vt2mp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Decent may be a bridge too far, but it's close. He's very intelligent. If all Republicans were like him, the country would be a much better place.

  • @MsUtubess

    @MsUtubess

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh please MicStupid. This guys a crook. Can u name an honest conservative.

  • @jackwertz8301

    @jackwertz8301

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MsUtubess 👍

  • @jackwertz8301

    @jackwertz8301

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Patricia...if you watch MSNBC you're either an idiot or just a communist. Probably both...

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like his use of words... scathing! Yes, I said it, and mean it 🤔 😁☺️😀🤔🙂😒🤗😏😎

  • @bornin1948
    @bornin19485 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson ; this interview was as good as I have seen. Matches Tony Schwartz speech to the Oxford Union.

  • @geire4531
    @geire45315 жыл бұрын

    Hope! Listen to this guy dems. Listen, really !

  • @smeyer9507
    @smeyer95074 жыл бұрын

    Damn, this is a lot worse than I could have imagined.

  • @bliss4383

    @bliss4383

    4 жыл бұрын

    Have you watched the videos of DAVID CAY JOHNSON yet? There’s one called, “It’s worse than you think.” Trump is a NARCISSISTIC PSYCHOPATH, nothing less. I’ve crossed paths with one. It cost me my health and around six figures. A total con artist, just like Trump.

  • @saltyroserocks457

    @saltyroserocks457

    4 жыл бұрын

    This IS a lot worse. And what’s even worse and more mind blowing is his ‘base’ still vehemently defends every tweet.

  • @dwightballard3868
    @dwightballard38685 жыл бұрын

    Best analysis I've seen in a long time. Rick Wilson is smart and right on point about the state of affairs.

  • @jakeschmell
    @jakeschmell3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely breathtaking

  • @Alizardlovesyou
    @Alizardlovesyou3 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy his intelligence. Let’s benefit from this forced collaboration.

  • @suemccord2633
    @suemccord26335 ай бұрын

    Just came across this 2024🎉The Rick Wilson ❤

  • @clancy12ify
    @clancy12ify4 жыл бұрын

    Very funny and also true

  • @JorgeFlores-ox4pr
    @JorgeFlores-ox4pr2 жыл бұрын

    Love the statement, "Unfortunately, this time the mark was the Republican Party and the conservative movement and about 40% of Americans".

  • @TnT24u

    @TnT24u

    2 жыл бұрын

    Conservative Republicans are only 28 % of American s NOT 40% remember 50% of eligible voters DON'T VOTE

  • @indoorsandout3022
    @indoorsandout30224 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what he would think about February through June of 2020? Because I think a dumpster fire was taken to the dump and caught the rest of the dump on fire too.

  • @selecterjd9785

    @selecterjd9785

    4 жыл бұрын

    I actually laughed out loud!

  • @robertjackson4121
    @robertjackson41215 жыл бұрын

    Time to reform electoral college, supreme court and white house. Term limits in congress

  • @rdlewis3616
    @rdlewis36164 жыл бұрын

    I get the feeling that most of those people who run campaigns and do PR for candidates are turned on by playing the game with no concern for the long term consequences. The same as those teenage boys who lock themselves in the basement and play for hours trying to destroy their opponent. Rick said he had put up negative ads, so he is also to blame for the mess we are in today, although I do agree with him about the tax cut and Bannon.

  • @njosborne6152
    @njosborne61525 жыл бұрын

    “A fraud and a joke” is now the president of the United States “a clown living on credit.”‼️‼️

  • @driven9863

    @driven9863

    5 жыл бұрын

    You Mad.. Hillary lost...

  • @michealtull9033

    @michealtull9033

    5 жыл бұрын

    I challenge anyone to prove that POS Wilson is right about Trump living off credit .

  • @jeffreyhagelin6047

    @jeffreyhagelin6047

    5 жыл бұрын

    Micheal Tull People like you won't believe the hard facts when they hit you on the head. There's already been too much damage done.

  • @michealtull9033

    @michealtull9033

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jeffreyhagelin6047 what facts are you referring to. Can you provide proof that Trump lives off credit . The left lives off lies and deception, produce the proof.

  • @jeffreyhagelin6047

    @jeffreyhagelin6047

    5 жыл бұрын

    Micheal Tull 1. There is not a bank in the country that will touch him. 2.. The amount of bankruptcies he's gone through motivates his monetary decisions. 3. Look no further than the administration's budget deficits and even you with your limited comprehension skills will understand ! 😁 PS,,,,, Mueller will fill in the rest, dumpster !

  • @lindagarland5223
    @lindagarland52235 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I enjoyed this knowledgable interview....and the guest is a Republican! There IS HOPE.

  • @glennfromthebronx

    @glennfromthebronx

    5 жыл бұрын

    yup. There are so few "Republicans" left....I don't know what to call the Trumpeteers: bombthrowers, K Street lobbyists, bullshit eaters...? I only listen to a Republican if/when I hear something that appears to be "fiscal responsibility".

  • @glennfromthebronx

    @glennfromthebronx

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Robinson cute. Methinks you're projecting a bit too much. Can you explain how/why the lion's share of the Republican PArty decried Democrats every time the federal debt limit had to be raised, yet EAILY did it in 2017...and added @$1.2 trillion ot the debt? IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY HYPROCRITICAL, DIGUSTING AND UNAMERICAN....AND THE BANK OF CHINA OWNS @60% OF THE DEBT. AAt a minimum, Democrat overspending is within U.S> borders....with almost all of Obama's overspending involving getting @30 mllion Americans access to health insurance, including @18q million" kids'...0-18 years old....and INVESTMENT. Trump's tax cuts....mostly left the country or involved companies' buying back unsold public stock....inflating/overvaluing the stock. (bubble? TBD.) Obama just cleaned up the last Republican mess....that derivativd /homomre mortgage "scandal" 2 months before he left office.

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    And job as Americans is to stay active and hopeful.

  • @Jaywalk-uq6wy
    @Jaywalk-uq6wy4 жыл бұрын

    This was very interesting. Thank you!

  • @1828tolstoy
    @1828tolstoy4 жыл бұрын

    Reagan and Bush lead us here so you have a lot to atone for.

  • @cavejug3086
    @cavejug30864 жыл бұрын

    ...one can not be a dictator without a mob behind him

  • @charlescanzater
    @charlescanzater5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your book and for being a honest human being !

  • @PGOOO7
    @PGOOO74 жыл бұрын

    the truth @ 90 m p h thanxz rick very rare vetran

  • @kurtoogle4576
    @kurtoogle45763 жыл бұрын

    2020. How bad can Trump get? Hold my beer....

  • @peggyrivera3964
    @peggyrivera39642 жыл бұрын

    I am rewatching this in February 2022 and wow. This man knew exactly what he was talking about. And here we are left with chaos that we may never recover from and he (orange man), is still in the background stirring it all up.

  • @margyrowland
    @margyrowland4 жыл бұрын

    Wilson has outed himself.......latest GOP advertisement “they think you’re a joke”. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

  • @vwm8534

    @vwm8534

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would imagine Rick has no problem with ousting himself from the current GOP

  • @jasonnadal9721

    @jasonnadal9721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Australia has radical Christians that love trump.

  • @marilynrichardson6525
    @marilynrichardson65252 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson, smart and funny.

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn54613 жыл бұрын

    A former Darth Vader who turned against the dark side. Heard him 2 years after this, now he hangs with Obiwan.

  • @788home
    @788home2 жыл бұрын

    So much of this - viewed from 2 years in the future - is perfect prognostication - right down to the Trump declaring the 2020 election 'stolen'. I don't think Rick foresaw Jan 6 2021 - but he hints at the possibility. I'd like to have Rick 'review' the period from October 2020 to June 2021.

  • @kevnwarriner8819

    @kevnwarriner8819

    Жыл бұрын

    During the summer of 2020 Rick and Steve Schmidt were warning about probable violence between November 3rd and January of 2021 after they had spoken to Mary Trump and then Trump's comment about the Proud Boys during the first Presidential debate on September 29th 2020 telling them to stand by for his orders and they responded to Trump directly...

  • @eudoraeaton5847
    @eudoraeaton58474 жыл бұрын

    Wish there were more RICK WILSONS.

  • @veredp.6779
    @veredp.67792 жыл бұрын

    This discussion is still so relevant today (unfortunately). Why are these thugs (Trump, Bannon, Stone…) still walking free? It boggles the mind!!! Sad reality!

  • @mars.529
    @mars.5295 жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson is Brillant!

  • @mclittle5335

    @mclittle5335

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great writer and funny...Rick Wilson....

  • @Sunshine-uz4cx
    @Sunshine-uz4cx5 жыл бұрын

    BRAVO!! Love Rick every time he speaks!! More like Rick and ANERICA WILL BE GREST AGAIN!! ( without trump )

  • @doitdiddy
    @doitdiddy Жыл бұрын

    I love, love, love listening to the intelligent insights and opinions of Rick Wilson.

  • @johnwax8419
    @johnwax8419 Жыл бұрын

    Rick Wilson is a a Republican with a SPINE. I salute his ability to know right from wrong!

  • @blaqhawk2k918
    @blaqhawk2k9182 жыл бұрын

    It would be great to have a follow-up video to this!

  • @amyhollman1970

    @amyhollman1970

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indeed.

  • @kyleg8098

    @kyleg8098

    2 жыл бұрын

    It would?

  • @bobbyb5215

    @bobbyb5215

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is another YT upload by Commonwealth Club Jan.22 2020 with Rick Wilson it’s great it’ll blow your mind 🤯

  • @amyhollman1970

    @amyhollman1970

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bobbyb5215 Thank you for the info!

  • @kyleg8098

    @kyleg8098

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bobbyb5215 before 2015, you knew nothing of this clown show….he creates a grifting campaign of no values, and you fall for it.

  • @vwm8534
    @vwm85344 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately he's right about our presidential race being more about a popularity contest than anything else.

  • @Hastur876
    @Hastur876 Жыл бұрын

    I'm sipping from my cup with the writing on it that says "Republican Tears".

  • @nativetexan53
    @nativetexan532 жыл бұрын

    Oh thank you for finally saying how horrible Bannon is! I have been saying it for years!

  • @realmusicrealartist4899
    @realmusicrealartist48995 жыл бұрын

    As a Independent...I Love this guy he keeps it 💯, I would vote for him!!!

  • @ethelkrobinson7159
    @ethelkrobinson71595 жыл бұрын

    I sure hope the DNC would study this video and learn something such as how to win!! Rick Wilson is trying to help you, for real. I am a lifelong democrat and I bought the book when it first came out and loved it, but I also agree with him about his assessment of the weak kneed democratic party.

  • @elaineburnett5230

    @elaineburnett5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am thinking that the Republican Party is an excellent teacher, and slow learning Democrats are quickly getting up to speed...see Biden's 2022, January 6th message to the nation.

  • @Hastur876

    @Hastur876

    Жыл бұрын

    The DNC spent the past ten years trying to sell transgender bathrooms while the GOP was working on gerrymandering the rust belt and setting up to stack the Supreme Court to eliminate abortion and gay rights. They have no interest in learning, they're only into lecturing at the serfs.

  • @macdaddy1149
    @macdaddy11495 жыл бұрын

    Richard Ojeda could kick ass on TV and put Trump in his place in a debate.

  • @shirleyreese6832
    @shirleyreese68322 жыл бұрын

    Its February 2022, I have been watching Rick and Tara on Lincoln Project for almost a year. In my opinion, the republican party is almost dissolved; therefore, that opens the door for the Democrat party to splinter...and that's what the younger generation will do. I am not young, I am retired. That's my prediction, take it for all its worth!

  • @MartinWeller100
    @MartinWeller1003 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting watch...surprised I hadn't seen it earlier...I've been saying it for several years now...Steven Miller = Joseph Goebbels

  • @patriciamalone4473

    @patriciamalone4473

    2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely agree with you assessment

  • @anjaoldnettle2841

    @anjaoldnettle2841

    2 жыл бұрын

    To read about Steven Miller and David Horowitz is really an eye opener to understand what Trump said, what his supporters say and how they demonize the democrats, demonize migrants, Muslims and use the language of the left against the left.

  • @Roses-lilac

    @Roses-lilac

    2 жыл бұрын

    Miller even looks like Goebbels!

  • @rutherd9616

    @rutherd9616

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't know why I did not see this earlier; this should be a mandatory watch for all, Democrats and Republicans.

  • @blyt5046
    @blyt50462 жыл бұрын

    I was in the military during the time he was talking about I was in augsburg GE, I was one of the last to get to see the wall before it got taken down. Pretty fascinating to see in person especially out in the countryside. he is right about the cold war era are you have to do is make a mistake and you would be part of an international incident. we constantly got all sorts of warnings if we were near the border for any reason. I love the way he describes to repubs

  • @christheghostwriter
    @christheghostwriter2 жыл бұрын

    Wilson warned that, at this point, Trump hadn't actually faced a major crisis. I said the same thing the day Trump won in 2016: the moment he faced a real crisis, we were screwed. And then COVID-19 came along and my worst fears were confirmed. Trump did exactly what he has always done in the face of a crisis: he ran away and left others (in this case, state governors) to deal with his mess.

  • @suemccord2633
    @suemccord26335 ай бұрын

    Just came across this ❤Big fan of The Rick Wilson ETTD 😂

  • @Onestepdeeper
    @Onestepdeeper4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah watching June 2020 still true. You could almost be my favorite Republican if I could stand them.

  • @desertportal353
    @desertportal3535 жыл бұрын

    Reads my mind and I'm a Flaming Social Justice Warrior.

  • @tedcarlin8157

    @tedcarlin8157

    5 жыл бұрын

    Right on and right thing to do. Need more people like you and don't forget to vote!

  • @michaelpondo6324

    @michaelpondo6324

    5 жыл бұрын

    @DB Cooper trump is the swamp slime that has to be drained.

  • @danielschaeffer1294

    @danielschaeffer1294

    4 жыл бұрын

    The dissident who swindled fifty million from decent people with a phony university. You're a troll, and you're wasting your time here.

  • @davidboreham
    @davidboreham2 жыл бұрын

    These guys had a time machine!

  • @talkwench340
    @talkwench3403 жыл бұрын

    Hmmm chickens coming home to roost... They've created a monster they now can't control.

  • @elviralopez6401
    @elviralopez64013 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the feeling here is bipartisan.

  • @johnreed9435
    @johnreed94354 жыл бұрын

    So much more prescient today as it was when first viewed. His view of the trump cabinet and staffers is one of the funniest reviews ever

  • @jameshuseby6290

    @jameshuseby6290

    4 жыл бұрын

    May be funny but pretty dangerous when you have a President and administration and Republican Senate like we have

  • @johnwright9372
    @johnwright9372 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating insights from Wilson.

  • @doctorworm3735
    @doctorworm37352 жыл бұрын

    This guy is brilliant, this is my first exposure to the guy. He is funny af "cancer with legs"?

  • @carolsiebert9359
    @carolsiebert93593 жыл бұрын

    Love one another ...love is an action verb.

  • @davidharness1507
    @davidharness15075 жыл бұрын

    The clearest judgement I've seen!

  • @njosborne6152

    @njosborne6152

    5 жыл бұрын

    David Harness Clear as mud But it covered the ground💩

  • @kimpanos7906
    @kimpanos79065 жыл бұрын

    So the good people, the moral people are done. How sad.

  • @anniesue4456
    @anniesue44563 жыл бұрын

    I like this guys sense of humor

  • @pablopicoso
    @pablopicoso2 жыл бұрын

    So prescient and astute. Rick Wilson is awesome, and I’m a progressive. Too bad your video is so long because you could take this and put in snippets so others can tolerate the length. Starting at 45:20 would be a great rerelease. Rick if you’re listening, you should do it.

  • @leealexander3507

    @leealexander3507

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like long videos most of the time although I choose one of the short ones if I lack the time for something from the Commonwealth Club which tend to be a bit longer.

  • @lumpy0100
    @lumpy01005 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Commonwealth Club.☺ Thanks John Zipperer (Political Round Table).☺ Thanks Rick Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies).☺

  • @user-ms7jn4kv2j
    @user-ms7jn4kv2j5 ай бұрын

    Trumpet drained the swamp into his lake to see what he could steal!

  • @jeanelegarrett3273
    @jeanelegarrett32732 жыл бұрын

    They always whine when the people will gain but have no problem giving our money to the rich !

  • @bernardliu8526
    @bernardliu85265 жыл бұрын

    The Secretary of Defence was the only person who did not kowtow to Trump in that first and infamous plenary meeting of top officials in the WH.

  • @TheSpasmer

    @TheSpasmer

    5 жыл бұрын

    You mean the one where they went around the room and praised Trump? I think Jim Mattis said some things as well during that meeting. But I could be wrong sir.

  • @kathleensmitholdwhitewoman7200

    @kathleensmitholdwhitewoman7200

    5 жыл бұрын

    But he is now snding troops to the southern border is a big mistake.

  • @wisconsinfarmer4742

    @wisconsinfarmer4742

    5 жыл бұрын

    Defense

  • @michealtull9033

    @michealtull9033

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@kathleensmitholdwhitewoman7200 how is putting troops on the border a mistake?

  • @themadlibrarian2933

    @themadlibrarian2933

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@michealtull9033 It violates the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that has been in effect since 1878 that bars the military from being used to conduct police actions that would normally be done by civilian police. ICE, the Border patrol, and police and sheriff's departments are all civilian organizations.

  • @charlesmeythaler3619
    @charlesmeythaler36194 жыл бұрын

    I really like this perspective -- you can be a Republican and disagree with the narrow view that the current administration has. We fought against a King- we do not need a president who thinks of himself as a successor to Louis XIV

  • @johntop2947
    @johntop29473 жыл бұрын

    the mouse with glasses.LOL

  • @robertmclernon4836
    @robertmclernon48362 жыл бұрын

    This was October 2018. Things went from bad to worse.

  • @zzzcozumel
    @zzzcozumel4 жыл бұрын

    Kelley Ann Conway ...opens her lie hole ,,, haha