Rick Wilson: "Don Jr. Will run in 2024. And he'll probably win."

[CousinIT]

Forget Trump 2020, Worry About Don Jr. 2024

https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget-trump-2020-worry-about-donald-trump-jr-2024

In the era of Donald Trump, the Republican Party has become hilariously, utterly blind to the consequences of its transformation from conservative leaders to Trump cult bootlicks, toadies, and ball-washing yes-men. They whistled past the graveyard in 2018 right up to a colossal congressional and down-ballot ass-beating on Election Day, but the real future they face is almost unimaginably bad.

Donald Trump is locked in his now-tiresome rage spiral as economic, foreign policy, and moral failures of his crapulous administration mount. The endless, wearing cycle of “fail, lie, deny, ragetweet, lather, rinse, repeat” is an ugly, constant whine in our lives.

Democrats are caught up in the 2020 race for the nomination, full of passions for candidates, ideas, and issues that won’t matter in the general election next November. Trump is still in a position to win due to their usual campaign ineptitude and the lack of a superstar candidate with the talent of Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.

Can’t include anymore context/text due to their goddamned paywall.

[LuckyCharms]

1. Well, there's some nightmare fuel.

[marble falls]

3. The guy who drew 200 people to a 7,000 seat venue with a free program will run for President?

[area51]

22. +1 n/t

[LuckyCharms]

44. I know, but I remember a time when I would have...

bet $10,000 that Trump Sr. would never become president.

[Grasswire2]

2. Not if justice is served by convicting Trump family members...

....of their crimes and then seizing all the assets, pulling the passports, restricting them from doing business or public life.

Seriously. Why would they be allowed ANY power for vengeance? Stomp them down. Render them penniless and powerless.

Or offer the Rosenberg remedy.

[BeyondGeography]

5. This is important

New rule: No more reconciliation without truth. That's how Trump happened in the first place (ie bankers skating with corporate fines and no jail time).

[iloveObama12]

4. Good One Rick Wilson

[FakeNoose]

6. Why would Rick Wilson write this?

He's yanking somebody's chain, maybe Chump's.
Who knows?

[struggle4progress]

7. "Stay tuned for more of America's Favorite Halfwits!"

[Takket]

8. " lack of a superstar candidate with the talent of Barack Obama or Bill Clinton"

Bullshit

Wilson can fuck right off with that crap.

[maxsolomon]

19. Which Dem candidate has equivalent Charisma to Obama? It's very rare.

I wanted it to be Harris, but I haven't seen that in her campaign. Warren's appeal isn't her "Magnetism"; it's her intellect.

As much as I loathe President Sociopath, he has charisma - at least to the idiots who he appeals to. Junior has none of his dad's on-camera talent.

Rick Wilson's cynical analysis resonates for me. Especially this: "full of passions for candidates, ideas, and issues that won’t matter in the general election next November".

[Bradical79]

26. If we need a Barak Obama every election cycle...

...this country is permanently fucked.

[maxsolomon]

28. You said it. This country is permanently fucked.

The candidate with the most charisma wins the General.

[uponit7771]

33. +1

[TheRealNorth]

29. Trump doesn't have charisma

He knows what his base wants to hear, so he repeats that ad nauseum.

[maxsolomon]

31. You underestimate him. He's a skilled Con Artist.

He was a media fixture for decades before this sad era BECAUSE he's telegenic.

His words are irrelevant, obviously. It is the manner with which he says them.

[TheRealNorth]

32. You Don't have to be charismatic to be a Con artist

He tells the deplorables how right they are about everything and they award him for affirming their beliefs.

[maxsolomon]

35. You just won't cede that he has skills that put him in that office.

I don't understand why there's a problem with conceding that President Asshole is "charismatic".

We see through his bullshit. Stupid people don't. They literally think he's hilarious. And handsome. And charming. That's why he was on TV for years.

[BlueStater]

40. Conservative assholes support people who say the things they want to hear.

The messenger is irrelevant. Before his current occupation as a demented cult leader, Trump was considered a C-list joke of a celebrity. His public persona was that of a sleazy, boorish lout, so no. I wouldn't say he has charisma to most people. He became popular with racist imbeciles when he began publicly parroting all their vile beliefs.

I wouldn't say Lou Dobbs or Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity have any sort of charisma or charm either, but they're popular with the pukes for the reason I stated.

If we're talking Republican president, we have Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and the two Bushes in the last 50 years. Yeah, whole lot of charisma there.

Charisma, for some reason, only seems to matter when you're a Democrat.

[maxsolomon]

41. He beat all the usual GOP suspects for the nomination

Precisely because he brought "star power" to the stage. It doesn't work on us, but it worked on them. It was the manner with which he parroted their troglodytic white nationalist resentments - the manner of a skilled Con Artist. I remember Scott Adams telling Bill Maher it was called "pacing and leading".

If charisma didn't matter, Ted Cruz would have been the nominee.

Reagan won and governed on his Charisma, too.

[Hekate]

43. Adolf Hitler was charismatic. It's not a character judgement.

[maxsolomon]

47. thank you

for the backup.

[Hekate]

42. Which is why many of us believe Biden is running a GE campaign against Trump NOW...

Wilson is an acute observer of politics, whatever else you think of his career, and his cynicism is well-earned in the Age of Trump.

[snowybirdie]

9. Click Bait

Ok Mr Former Republican. You've got our attention. Now sober up!

[CousinIT]

18. +1 n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Did you know that if you select all the text on a paywall webpage with Ctrl+A

and then copy it to your clipboard with Ctrl+V, you sometimes get all of it? Just paste it into anything you can look at text in - Notepad, a word processor ...

(oh - I just checked the large amount of text I got, and it isn't the continuation of this story after all - it's a different article, about Warren. Never mind, the tip is worth checking when you find a "pay to read more" message)

[dalton99a]

11. "Really?"

[kimbutgar]

12. The guy who dumped his wife and took up with a fox personality.

It will be hard for evangelicals to support a guy who leaves his 5 kids and wife.

This was a click bait article. Don jr had a lot of baggage and is not sly like his dad.

[maxsolomon]

37. Haha - you know his father did that and they don't care, right?

Ok, 2 wives and 4 kids, not 1 and 5.

[sdfernando]

38. Of course they would support him

Look who they are supporting now! Divorced, cheater, pornstar dalliances, grabbing women by the....

you give evangelicals too much credit.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. But 2024 was Ivanka's turn!

[TeamPooka]

45. If daddy is alive he will run in 2024 instead, after he loses in 2020. :) The kids can wait.

[New Breed Leader]

14. God, that's terrifying.

[Thekaspervote]

15. Mr Wilson usually makes sense, this.....not. Now if Michael Moore had said it, it still wouldn't

Make sense as nothing he does make sense...oh well!

[Downtown Hound]

16. LOL.

[Brainfodder]

17. I am definitely leaving in that case.

I'll take a bet on that one Rick, geeez.

Hilarious, mainly due to Don Jr. in lots of freedom jeopardy?

[NewJeffCT]

20. Rick is usually a pretty sharp analyst

And I agree that the Democrats don't have a "superstar" candidate like an Obama or Bill Clinton, but I'm not sure that will be needed in 2020. I think if Democrats follow the Tim Wise strategy of narrowing the focus of attacks on Trump to his racism & misogyny instead of the other 98 issues that we can attack him about, they should be in a good shape.

and, I think Warren is definitely developing into a very strong candidate, and others have potential.

[BlueMississippi]

21. Scary thought

I didn't need to read that

[Azathoth]

23. He's making an important point. There is no bottom for the GOP

What sounds like an over-the-top joke now is political reality in four years. Remember how absurd the notion of a president Trump was when Obama roasted him at the WHCD?

[comradebillyboy]

24. Rick Wilson is full of shit. I don't know why anybody pays

attention to him. Aside from being anti-Trump he's just another doctrinaire Republican asshole.

[IcyPeas]

25. people, it doesn't matter who they nominate....

they will all vote for that person whoever it is. it doesn't matter to them the persons morals or crimes. We know that now, clearly... they don't care. as long as it's a republican they will vote for them. Their president is just a puppet.

and you can see by the blue banner on the top of this forum that we don't have a superstar. those numbers have hardly moved. (and yes, I know that's just DU members).

[maxsolomon]

30. The issue are the flibberdigibbet low-information swing voters

who change parties based on emotions, or simply don't show up because they're not excited about the choice.

They decide the election. They fucked us in 2016 because Trump made them laugh.

[CousinIT]

39. For Republicans, a POTUS is just a puppet - for billionaires and big corporations

...who when Republicans are in power are the ones REALLY running the US gov't, not POTUS.

They don't want a LEADER. They want a PUPPET for the wealthy and big corprats.

You're absolutely right!

The idiots will vote for any clown.

[Baclava]

27. Not quite, his sister wants it more

[DFW]

34. I really hope this refers to the 1000 yard dash for the 40 and over crowd. n/t

[onenote]

36. Can I get some of what he's smoking?

[JonLP24]

46. I'm tired of Rick Wilson

Sorry but never Trump Republicans shouldn't be heroes of the resistance.