Trump is 'going to lead us into a darkness we aren't prepared for': GOP insider

Concluding “God help us all,” a former Republican Party campaign advisor claimed on Tuesday morning that Donald Trump seems hellbent on launching World War III and not one of his advisors will lift a finger to stop him.

In his morning Substack newsletter, the acerbic Rick Wilson expressed sincere alarm that the unrestrained Trump will turn his Iran war adventurism into a full-fledged international catastrophe because he refuses to concede that his second term in office is a growing failure.

According to Wilson, “He knows that this war has slipped from his control, and that would cement the public image of failure in a way that nothing would dislodge. Meanwhile, he’s out there braying that ‘to the victor belong the spoils,’ envisioning a future where he’s looting Iran’s ruins for oil and ego props. Good luck with that.”

Calling Trump’s Easter day message “Praise be to Allah” a “move of transcendent stupidity. It wasn’t a masterstroke; it was a toddler throwing a lit match into a room full of gasoline just to see the pretty colors,” he added, “The most damning part of this entire burlesque? Everyone in that room with him, at any time, from the sycophants in the Cabinet to his terrified aides lurking in the wings, knows the truth.”

Trump’s inner circle knows, “... he is utterly, fundamentally incapable of understanding the gravity of the fire he’s ignited. All of them: the military team, the intelligence folks, the State Department, Susie Wiles. All of them know. Marco knows. So does J.D. So does Scott Bessent. He’s killing our nation, and they’re his little handmaidens,” Wilson accused.

“The economic fallout will be a masterclass in self-inflicted systemic collapse, a fiscal Hindenburg ignited by a man who thinks ‘macroeconomics’ is a type of pasta. As he pivots from one manufactured crisis to the next, the global markets, which crave stability the way Trump craves a camera lens or a ... model, are already pricing in the ‘Chaos Premium,’” he wrote. “We’re looking at an energy crisis to rival the 1970s, a supply chain decapitation that will make the pandemic look like a minor logistics hiccup, coupled with an inflationary spiral that will turn the average American’s 401(k) into a very expensive stack of kindling.”

Adding, “He detonates a new crisis to incinerate the headlines of the last one. It’s a scorched-earth policy applied to domestic PR, and it’s going to lead us into a darkness we aren’t prepared for. He’ll keep throwing matches until there’s nothing left to burn, convinced all the while that the explosions are actually applause,” he observed that the 25th Amendment should be on the table but it won’t because,” those who have the power to remove Trump are “... too busy measuring the drapes for their own political survival, for their 2028 runs, for their modified limited hangout walkbacks of the near and far future. No one should ever let any of his minions and minders anywhere near power or responsibility again, and it’s on us if we do.”