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Dulcinea

(6,631 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 03:25 PM Aug 2018

In 'Everything Trump Touches Dies,' Few Are Spared

Rick Wilson can't sleep at night.

The Republican operative isn't known for being a thin-skinned, bring-me-the-smelling-salts, political naif. He has historically been a strategist who conservative candidates would call when campaigns took a turn — when it was time to go negative.

He has taken his knowledge of the dark arts and turned it on Trumpism and the president himself in a new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies. President Donald Trump is the avatar of "our worst instincts and darkest desires as a nation," he writes, supported by an ideology that is the "sewage tank of nationalist populism."

So how could he get a good night's rest when the movement, where he was once squarely within the mainstream, is led by a man he so despises?

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/635978021/in-everything-trump-touches-dies-few-are-spared

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In 'Everything Trump Touches Dies,' Few Are Spared (Original Post) Dulcinea Aug 2018 OP
The moron wants to kill things on purpose. BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #1
I don't see him as a killer. His motivation is more akin to a rapist's. King_Klonopin Aug 2018 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
1. The moron wants to kill things on purpose.
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 04:15 PM
Aug 2018

He is a known sadist and gets off on seeing people fight, hurt one another or suffer. This goes for his own staff who he pits against one another and then sits back and watches them fight, like the Roman Colosseum. He does this with minorities, women, poor people, etc. He is a very sick monster.

King_Klonopin

(1,306 posts)
2. I don't see him as a killer. His motivation is more akin to a rapist's.
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 02:10 AM
Aug 2018

He gets what he wants rapaciously, both literally and figuratively.

He will rape you of your money, especially, and your dignity.
His actions are rooted in his desire for power, wealth and self-
gratification. He identifies with other rapists, as well.

Those victims which come to mind:

All of the women he has groped, assaulted, etc.
Hillary Clinton
John McCain
Marco Rubio
Ted Cruz
Mitt Romney
Jeff Sessions
James Comey
Angela Merkel
Maxine Waters
The FBI and DOJ
NATO
The environment
Everyone he has ever defrauded in his business dealings.
All the Mexican people he claims are rapists (obvious irony noted)


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