Every man who has sat in the Oval Office has felt the short, sharp shock when an ordinary day in the highest office in the land shifts from pomp and ceremony to urgent briefings, immediate choices, crucial decisions where lives are on the line. It’s not something that may happen to a president. It’s something that will happen. Rick Wilson Read Quote
Trump’s inability to relate actions to consequences, his profound intellectual ambivalence about history, strategy and facts, in addition to his notoriously delicate ego, combine to create a risk we’ve never seen in a President during a nuclear crisis. Rick Wilson Read Quote
All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society. Rick Wilson Read Quote
Free-market capitalism doesn’t pick economic winners and losers based on the president’s economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn’t marked a top-down ideological conformity strictly enforced by state media organs. Rick Wilson Read Quote
The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time. Rick Wilson Read Quote
Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike. Rick Wilson Read Quote
The first two weeks of Donald Trump’s Presidency made it clear: Trump’s Gonna Trump. No newfound dignity for him. Rick Wilson Read Quote
Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they’re wrong. Rick Wilson Read Quote
A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of ‘conservative’ was simply ‘Not Hillary.’ Rick Wilson Read Quote
