If you watch MS-NBC you may have gotten used to seeing Republican consultant Rick Wilson take off after Donald Trump, whom he cannot stand. Wilson, -who was chief strategist to John Kasich- he has now tweeted that he did NOT work for Kasich, but he was active in the stop Trump movement, has not given up at taking down Trump. He tweets (as @TheRickWilson) against Trump constantly, and some may remember I posted this piece about a Twitter storm Wilson did 8 days ago.
Well, he is at it again. He has an op ed up at The New York Daily News which is titled Beat him like a drum: Donald Trump must not just lose in November; to correct the institutions he’s broken, he must suffer a humiliating defeat.
There is a LOT of stuff in that op ed. He starts by among other things complaining about the ”Vichy Republican leadership” (That’s you Reince Preibus and others) giving in to Trump, and following immediately with this paragraph:
The single worst major party nominee in modern history — a man who has no political core, lies practically every time he speaks and is patently unstable — reached this point because every leader and institution in my party, the Republican Party, has failed again and again to grapple with the grim realities of Trump's impact on the election, the conservative movement and the character of our nation.
Wilson is still a committed Republican, He shreds Trump. He is certainly not happy about Clinton. Which makes the ending of this piece that much more powerful, and I offer it without further comment:
He needs to be put as far into exile as is humanly possible so that the country can heal from the deep wounds he's inflicted upon it.
I want to be clear here. As a principled conservative, I loathe the high likelihood that Hillary Clinton will — barring a bear attack or some other unforeseen externality — win this election.
She'll nominate liberal Supreme Court justices. We'll lose religious liberty. We'll have our Second Amendment freedoms compromised. Chuck Schumer's immigration bill is going to be so bad it will make many of us beg for the Gang of Eight.
However, Trump would be far worse. He'd be more dangerous to our safety and our republic. And since I know his loss is coming, I pray to God that it is total. You should, too.