On Thursday, conservative pundit Rick Wilson tweeted out his frustration and worry after President Donald Trump said that his supporters would wreak havoc on his opponents.
Trump, who values loyalty, experienced an epic defeat after 12 Republican Senators joined Democrats to vote against his national emergency declaration.
“It is true that Trump is only an aspirational authoritarian, and to date has failed to bring his most illiberal dreams to life,” a report from New York Magazine reads.
In an interview with Breitbart News Trump said that his supporters are “tough” and that it would be “very bad” for people to cross them.
“I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay?” Trump said. “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
Wilson explained that Trump gets closer to acting like a “tyrant” more every day.
Read his tweets below:
1/ So Donald Trump is threatening to unleash state violence (cops, military) and extrajudicial violence (bikers) against his political opponents.
Cool Republic we had. Shame about the new ownership.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
2/ Jefferson seems apropos:
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
3/ Jefferson, again:
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
4/ This is such a window into the shallow, vengeful, grotesque mind of Trump. His ball-washing of almost every thug and authoritarian out there is perfectly explicable.
He sees them as role models, not as enemies of the values American can and should represent in the world.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
5/ This wasn’t some figure of speech, or some verbal tic. This is a man who edges closer by every standard of the Founders to the definition of “tyrant.” I wish I was exaggerating.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
6/ Madison was too optimistic in Federalist 46, 51.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
7/ “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad” is going down in history.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 14, 2019
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