Rick Wilson: "Trump's crop of crazy came to fruition this week and was almost ready for harvest"

[Miles Archer]

For three long days this week, the Republican Party held its breath as a serial bomber sent a dozen devices to CNN’s New York headquarters, two former Democratic presidents, a former Democratic vice president, two former CIA directors, several elected Democrats, and Democratic activists George Soros and Tom Steyer. After months of rabid attacks on his opponents as enemies of the people, Donald Trump’s crop of crazy came to fruition this week and was almost ready for harvest. By either incompetence, luck, design flaws, or providence, none of the bombs in this campaign of political terror cost life or limb.

This hasn’t been an easy week for Trump loyalists. They spent the last 72 hours praying that the MAGA Bomber would turn out to be a false flag attack, the product of some dastardly Democratic cabal. The idea, which bubbled up from the fever swamps of Breitbart, Infowars, and the rest of the Trump-right ecosystem like a fart in a bathtub, was as illogical as it was pathetic. It couldn’t be this president’s penchant for daily political arson, right?

Twitter Javerts like Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Ann Coulter, Frank Gaffney, John Cardillo, Laura Loomer, Jacob Wohl, and alt-right thought leader and Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec all jumped to sell the idea that Trump’s gushing sewer of inflammatory rhetoric could never inspire a serial bomber. Their mirror-world version of Occam’s Razor was that this must be a fiendishly clever leftist plot to disrupt the November elections. Just hours before the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, the president reinforced their fevered belief.

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Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!

7:19 AM - 26 Oct 2018

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Introspection isn’t exactly one of this president’s strong suits, and the discovery that the MAGA Bomber was one of the millions of creatures he created, inspired, and motivated to wage war against those he describes as Enemies of the People will never trouble the placid waters of his stunningly shallow intellect. Worry about his responsibility will never penetrate the vacuum of his moral landscape. Trump made an enemies list, and then he weaponized his social media power to push that enemies list into the minds of the furious and febrile who slavishly lap up his every utterance. What, precisely, did he think would happen?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/of-course-donald-trump-inspired-cesar-sayocs-terrorism

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. name and shame

All of these vile creatures need to be named and shamed. They helped make MAGAbomber.

[watoos]

2. Name and shame isn't going to happen.

Most Trump followers still believe it was a false flag. One woman at Trump's cult fest said that the Clintons sent the bomb to themselves.

I live among them in Central Pa. and I have given up for any rational discourse with them long ago. What they are they learned early in life, Trump just brought it out.

[sarge43]

3. If the Clintons had, they would have done a better job.

just in case

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. referring to the instigators

The article does name those who have been egging this on all along, and who have been preaching to their cult that this is a false flag operation. Those are the ones who need to be named, to reduce their marketability.

[watoos]

5. Yes, I agree with you,

the right wing media hate fest plays an enormous role, but many of these people were raised by their parents to hate minorities and women. My 85 year old golfing buddy served in Korea, volunteers for military funerals, did Meals on Wheels, goes to church every Sunday. One day while playing golf he asked me what was the day that went down in infamy. I answered Pearl Harbor Day, he said no, it was in 1920 when they gave women the right to vote. It wasn't a joke. He later told me that his granddaughter wasn't all bad, she hates blacks. (and he didn't say blacks) He was the nicest person in the world, was actually my hero, we walk 9 holes and ride 9 holes, and he is a racist, misogynist bigot who loves Donald Trump. He hates Democrats because they are all lazy freeloaders who take his taxes. I told him that I am a Democrat, that I worked may way through college, got a job and worked for 42 years before I retired. He said, well. All I told him was that there are just as many lazy Republican freeloaders as there are Democratic. I asked him about the subsidy that Trump gave to the soybean farmers because of the tariff. He said he was against that, it wasn't right. These Trumpers get shot down when we actually talk issues with them, the problem is they are brainwashed with untruthful talking points.

I almost canceled my subscription to my local newspaper because they added an occasional column by Ann Coulter. I came close, but I'm at that age where I like to look at the Obituary page and not see my name. I also like to keep track of our local sporting events. I did personally tell the newspaper I didn't like the direction they were going, but I am one lonely voice crying out in the wilderness of right wingers.

[Pluvious]

7. Thank you for sharing friend

I struggle to understand their righteous ignorance.

One in-law of mine once boasted how he ONLY follows Fox News. Spoke it with pride, hoping to goad me into a "discussion."

I'm glad Jan Senko made a documentary on the blight that is Fox.
( https://g.co/kgs/vYb9ZH )

[mulsh]

6. Thanks Mr. Wilson. The silence of alleged Republican Party leaders is truly stunning this time.

n/y

[Amaryllis]

8. What did he think would happen? That would presume he is capable of thinking ahead to potential

consequences of words and actions. A trait noticeably lacking in malignant narcissists. Not a trait one wants in a leader.