Trump Is 'Political Herpes' Declares GOP Strategist - and Republicans 'Don't Want to Be Touched by I

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Trump Is ‘Political Herpes’ Declares GOP Strategist – and Republicans ‘Don’t Want to Be Touched by It’
Published on June 9, 2020 at 03:30 PM ET
By David Badash


Over the past week the nation has seen a surprising number of Republicans, conservatives, and Trump appointees start to stand up to President Donald Trump – including some who worked in his administration, and even some who still do.

It is a stunning snapshot for the president whose name has become synonymous with today’s GOP.

The list is long. A few examples:

General Jim Mattis (ret.), Trump’s former Secretary of Defense
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT)
President George W. Bush
General Colin Powell (Ret.), former Secretary of State
General John Kelly (ret.), Trump’s former Chief of Staff and former DHS Secretary
Defense Secretary Mark Esper
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley

On Friday a staggering 89 former Defense officials (some Republicans, some Democrats, many of unknown affiliations) signed onto a statement saying the U.S. military must never be used to violate Americans’ constitutional rights.

It seems the tide is turning, and according to GOP strategist Rick Wilson, Republicans are finally waking up to the fact that if they continue to tie their futures to President Donald Trump they will find their fortunes diminished. Bigly.

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Trump’s “political standing has collapsed so greatly that it’s easier for these folks to not feel the same risk level,” says Wilson, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “There’s going to come a point very soon where having a nasty tweet from the president is a badge of honour and a tool of survival because my rule of ‘everything Trump touches dies’ is real.”

“The people that are trying to get away from it now, I think, are going to end up in a better position than they would have been prior to this. There are many more people that are going to put daylight between themselves and this president because he is political herpes. They don’t want to be touched by it.”

[pwb]

1. Join the Democratic Party .

Prove it.

[Cha]

2. BLOTUS is a Political Malignant Cancer.. Run Away

Fast!

Trump’s “political standing has collapsed so greatly that it’s easier for these folks to not feel the same risk level,” says Wilson, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “There’s going to come a point very soon where having a nasty tweet from the president is a badge of honour and a tool of survival because my rule of ‘everything Trump touches dies’ is real.”

[empedocles]

5. The trump cancer may matstastize

[struggle4progress]

3. In January, the GOP Senate agreed "He can do anything he wants to get re-elected"

so this sudden flurry of conscience is too little, too late

[Me.]

4. First...Most Are Still Toadying So They Deserve To Be Touched BY "It"

2nd...as for the still struggling Sen. Murkowski, if she can even consider voting for him I don't know why her name is on the list.

[BComplex]

6. But this country has seen what the republicans have done...allowed babies to be taken from their

mothers, kids put in cages, neonazis having free rein to terrorize Jewish citizens, state houses, and various venues, plus the covid, the china trade deal, and all of the abuse against peaceful protesters....the list goes on and on and on. Russia has elected every one of the republicans in the senate. It wasn't just trump, it was the whole republican party that brought us this mess.

And when we gave them a way out (impeachment) they threw it in the face of our country.

No. More. Republicans. EVER.

[czarjak]

7. Practicing abstinence maybe was a good idea?

[volstork]

8. Too late.

They've already caught it. And it never goes away.