THIS, by Rick Wilson, is genius:

[Atticus]

"His elected enablers will lose, if not this cycle then next. Some will try to wash off Trumpism, but it's a combination of septic muck, stripper glitter, and authoritarian nationalism. "Donald Who?" will rise from their lips daily."

"---a combination of septic muck, stripper glitter, and authoritarian nationalism."

The man CAN turn a phrase!

[Ilsa]

1. It's always amusing that Rs know the

tools of the trade for strippers, con men, and tv evangelists.

But, well done, Rick Wilson.

[Canoe52]

18. Strippers wear glitter?

Who knew? I guess I’m outta touch!

[IADEMO2004]

2. Joni Ernst will embrace all of this until she is paid to stop. Even after defeat.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Rick can definitely string the words together!

A prolific wordsmith, as well.

[ewagner]

4. Remember this....

during elections in the past, Rick Wilson was one of the most diabolical, vicious and unprincipled spokesmen for the Republican party.

It's good to have him on "our" side during this campaign..

but

Remember...he can also be a formidable enemy...

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[calimary]

22. Never forget that.

EVERY LAST ONE of ‘em.

It’s nice that he’s - um - “on our side”. For now.

For now.

The test will come later, after trump, if people like Rick Wilson and others like him REALLY AND TRULY have seen the light, and have reformed. And have seen the error of their ways. And have renounced their earlier partisanship. And I don’t know yet whether that will be part of this.

It depends on what “true selves” their behavior displays after trump is no longer a factor. Do they go back to republi-CON business as usual now that “the coast is clear”? Or do they show genuine contrition and renounce their nogoodnik stuff? Do they the renounce the GOP and declare they want nothing further to do with the CONS?

We’ll just have to see, won’t we.

My husband would attest to an annoying habit I have now. Every time I see some GOPer or self-proclaimed “former GOP,” it doesn’t matter how witty or clever or fiery their rhetoric (lookin’ at YOU, Steve Schmidt), I snarl out loud “YOU BUILT THIS! YOU HELPED BUILD THIS!! YOU!!!

If you stood with this miserable excuse for a political party, if you didn’t bail out immediately and fight it with everything you got, if you hung around until it just finally got a little too stinky for ya (but you stayed loyal as long as you did) and you finally started writing editorials full of indignant rhetoric and going on TV, you STILL have a lot to answer for.

You still “got some on you” and you remain unclean. AND at least partially responsible for what’s happened. Your conscience and what’s left of your soul will have to carry these crimes for all eternity and answer for it all before whatever God you say you believe in and claim to worship.

Lady MacBeth whined “will nothing sweeten this little hand?” (After she got blood and sin and treachery and betrayal all over it, that is.) She, too, “built it.” Just like the Rick Wilsons and Steve Schmidts of America.

[ewagner]

23. +1

The Lady McBeth analogy is all too true.

for instance....

I like Nicole Wallace but every once in a while I see conservative dogma creep its way into her rants...

If the "grand ol party" do ies someday return, she and others like her will fall right back in line with a (hopefully) less insane standard bearer.

[calimary]

25. Yeah. That's what I'm expecting, too.

They'll all "come home." Except those who've actually seen the light and don't want to be part of that anymore.

There will be very few of those, I suspect.

[Hestia]

40. My DH & I do too - enablers all. I guess they got their souls back

after realizing their monster got loose.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. my late mom would say,,"not all that is gold , glitters".

[Wounded Bear]

10. Actually, it was Tolkien...

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

[lagomorph777]

11. Damn what a genius.

[Glorfindel]

12. Shakespeare, too, said it, although the other way around

The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7:

THE PRINCE OF MOROCCO:
"O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold..."

[Ligyron]

16. Did not know that, thanks!

[Wounded Bear]

17. According to Gorfindel in #12...

Shakespeare might be more accurate.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. wonder if she read him a whilst back. didnt know it was tolkien

thanks

[Wounded Bear]

21. According to Gorfindel in #12...

Shakespeare might be the more correct answer.

[dempls]

7. Never Forget as they clamor for their chance at power in the future

Pompeo, Nikki Haley

[not fooled]

14. Tom Cotton

The great Charlie Pierce is onto this tool. Calls him the "bobble-throated slapdick."

A competent fascist.

[calimary]

26. NEVER FORGET.

ANYONE who has the mark of trump on their souls should NEVER be trusted. Lookin' at YOU, Nikki Haley. Lookin' at YOU, Mike Pompeo.

They stood by trump, worked for him, were happy to get big-shot jobs from him, carrying his administration forward as high-ranking representatives (she as UN Ambassador, he as Secretary of State). Nobody held a gun to their head and made them do it.

They think they burnished their resumes for higher office. I think they have a big black mark on their souls.

[sop]

36. Floridians will have to wait. Rubio, Scott and DeSantis are not on the ballot this year.

I suspect Little Marco is already planning his presidential bid for 2024. The weasel will pretend he was always a Never Trumper.

[calimary]

38. Yeah, good luck with that. All we have to say is "cue the video!"

And we've got video from BOTH sides of his mouth, too!

[calimary]

37. Or - maybe that's not a big black mark on their souls. It could just be flies on their heads.

[EndlessWire]

39. LOL! n/t

[druidity33]

27. we'll see the

"goggle eyed humonculous" spring up at some point too. His first major 'presidential' expose will likely appear in "Tiger Beat on the Potomac"

[not fooled]

30. Hahahahahahahahaha

you are prescient. The GE H showed up on Ari Melber's show today to be interviewed about something regarding the debate tonight. I have no idea what he said because I ran to the teevee to turn it off.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Odd how some on the right

use the word nationalism as sufficient for racism.

[George II]

9. He's brilliant with the English language - really glad he's now on our side, for as long as he is.

[Illumination]

13. Trumpism is similar to birds. The blue jay enjoys searchng through the garbage for shiny

objects. The mynah bird is entertained by toys such as bells & mirrors. Lastly the jackdaw bird's name is inspired by its fondness for thievery....

[Brother Buzz]

15. You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter

[malaise]

19. It will be Donald who in a few weeks

Take that to the bank - Vote them out!

[Blue Owl]

28. K&R

[warmfeet]

29. Yes, this will not readily wash off.

And, it's up to all Democrats to make sure this authoritarian stink remains in the nostrils of the voting public for many election cycles to come. There must be consequence for these heinous actions, lest we find ourselves right back where we are now.

[smirkymonkey]

31. K&R

[dchill]

32. So it's actually Rick Wilson who has the best words!

[summer_in_TX]

33. If they REALLY want to kill Trumpism at the root

Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and all the others @ProjectLincoln will turn their skills on the system that led to Trump, that permitted the likes of a Rush, O'Reilly, Carlson, Hannity, Piranha, Tomi, and Laura Ingraham to spew their unending bile.

THAT is the next step, along with defeating more Trumpers in 2022. They know that the country has become ungovernable because so many lies and propaganda have been presented as truth, reinforced by repetition, by seemingly dignified and respectable congress-critters, hoary newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, pundits from the American Enterprise Institute and other RW think tanks, as well as by FOX News and 1500+ conservative talk radio stations.

If it hasn't occurred to them, I'd be surprised. I don't want them to stop at defeating Trump and his enablers. They are part of what broke us and brought us to the edge of civil war, although they are real Americans enough to recognize our peril and step up.

Don't forget that they will be pariahs among their former friends and employers. It's a good time to build alliances.

[dustyscamp]

35. Forthe people who will inevitable say "who cares? move on or it's time for unity" after the election

I'd just like to say FU in advanced