Rick Wilson

He can be a callous, heartless asshole, but he can also be somebody who just has this, like, what I call the cinematic version of the American military in his head.

It's battleships and big, strong men, and it's, you know, I...

It would be clownish if it wasn't so tragic.

I mean, I guess I kind of fall into that category.

I came into politics after Reagan, but just at H.W.

Bush in 88.

So I have enough of a foot in that world to know that the disappointment –

is extraordinary.

There are a lot of older Republican, you know, activists and officials and, and, you know, former cabinet members, former administration officials who are just like their heads are in their hands.

They're, they're, they're just, they can't believe how horrifying this is.

And equally, most of them are too chicken shit to say anything.

And I'm like the weird outlier where I can't shut my mouth about it.

And I'll accept that role as their public conscience right now because, yes, the horrifying experience we had for the last three days of Trump, first in the cabinet meeting, then at Davos, and now in the aftermath of lying about all these supposed deals, his Republican –

members of Congress and the Senate act like they work for him, not for their states or their districts.

And it is just so disappointing and so sad that they won't not only take up their constitutional responsibilities, but their patriotic responsibilities to do something about this guy.

It's never been true.

Yeah.

I mean, the last time I was through that way was still Tula, not the prophetic.

But, you know, we always had whatever access we wanted to Greenland.

We always had whatever access we wanted to any other part of the Arctic because of our close alliance with Canada.