Thread by @TheRickWilson

1/ Iwould warn Republicans that every tool they build now to exploit a temporary position of power will be turned back on them later.

if you break the political homeostasis in this country — boundaries and rules and norms — the other side will justify using the same tactics.

2/ Fully Weaponize the DOJ? Just wait.

Protect your friends and allies by interfering in the course of justice? Just wait.

encourage your people to engage in actions that range from shady to illegal with the promise of pardons? Just wait.

Govern by executive orders? Just wait.

3/ Is a particularly stupid trope among Trumper’s that Republican consultants and operatives before Trump were all passive losers. (Ignore us winning 2000 seats over 20 years).

they think that because we didn’t wreck everything that it was somehow a chain of losses.

4/ this is because most people who make that case have never actually worked in campaigns or in government. Their point is mostly masturbatory.

They don’t get that you’ve got to be in for the long march, because putting the work in over decades is what changes the country.

5/ You also don’t set precedents of abusing power, wrecking the rule of law, and putting the government to work for the personal financial and political benefit of the candidate.

Call me crazy but avoiding all those things is the *conservative* position.

6/ Trumpism is not conservative. It is a radical, jumped up form of authoritarian statism. It is nationalism, and corporate socialism.

History doesn’t repeat but it surely lays down a fat beat and a steady flow.