Rick Wilson

They knew that if anyone could enter your home for any reason, you didn't have security.

They knew that if you didn't have due process, you didn't have actual autonomy over your life.

All these things that Trump has convinced Republicans are conservative, it is madness.

And we have to have a reformation in this country at some point when he dies of whatever cause, whether it's a lightning bolt, a wild hog attack, or a Big Mac.

When he goes, this country has got to have a reformation.

that looks at where we have been and gets back to the values that are reflected in the Constitution and the rule of law.

And I am not saying that this is some sort of wild hair progressive, because I'm not.

I'm saying this because the whole system of Americans' freedoms and liberties is only protected if the Constitution and the rule of law are obeyed and applied equally every day to everybody all the time.

Yeah, we have a lot of work to do.

And look, a lot of it is because, and I've written a lot about this.

I'm actually writing a new book about this now.

Not a Trump book, of all things.

They built what I call the hate machine.

where they told people over and over again, particularly white, rural, 50-plus voters, you're being exploited by black people.

You're being exploited by Hispanics.

You're being hated on by liberal elites, all these things.

You lost your job because of a woman, all these things.

This constant cultural stew where they're winning elections not based on policy,

ideology they're winning elections based on culture war and they're very very very very very good at it and those rural voters say I vote Republican because I'm conservative that's often coding for something else yeah it's often coding for some other other thing in their life

But look, as an ex-Republican, I've said this to many, many Republicans, he did not and has not become a Republican.