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    Commentary: GOP strategist Rick Wilson on Trump's 'loud, messy, ugly' 2020 campaign

    by Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2019 10 minutes

    When a fresh news poll finds that a majority of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln was, what's an old-school, never-Trump Republican to do? For Rick Wilson, it's more of the same, with even more fire and fury - talking on television, and writing another book. The new one, "Running Against the Devil," is out next month, and in it, the veteran GOP campaign strategist offers up instructions for the tactical and strategic political fire to fight the fire of what he calls the president's 2020 "war machine." With his earlier book, "Everything Trump Touches Dies," Wilson became a Wicked Wit of cable news talk shows, a fulminator in chief relentlessly taking on the commander in chief who commandeered the party Wilson spent his career working for.

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    Q: What is going on with the democratic institutions in this country under the stress of a Trump presidency?

    A: We are on a very swift decline. I mean, there's no other way to put it. There's no way to make it pretty or gussy it up or to have an optimistic side channel on this.

    This is a man who is willfully destroying the rules, norms, laws, regulations, traditions and understandings of the American people, and at a speed and to a degree which I find absolutely reprehensible.

    And I come at this not as the typical partisan opponent of Trump.

    I come at this as a conservative who believes that things move slowly and change slowly when both parties engage in a dynamic back and forth that has marked our politics

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