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Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:24 AM 4 hrs ago

Rick Wilson has a way with words and some advice.

"When people stop believing in vaccines because a guy on Rumble told them they contain 5G chips, people die.”

"When people believe that elections are stolen by Italian satellites and Hugo Chavez’s ghost, they storm the Capitol with zip ties and bear spray. “

“When the government is viewed not as a flawed institution but as a literal demonic entity, the solution almost always devolves towards violence.”

"We are seeing the death of the shared reality. Without a shared reality, you don’t have a country; you have a collection of warring tribes sharing a zip code and a mutual desire to see the other side extinguished."

"If we don’t find a way to break the fever, it will lead to the total collapse of the institutional trust that makes a Republic based on laws and democracy possible. You can’t have a court system if half the country thinks the judges are part of a pedophile ring. You can’t have an economy if people think the currency is a tool of the Illuminati.”

"I don’t have a magic wand. I can’t go to your Thanksgiving dinner and convince your cousin that the Earth isn’t flat and that George Soros isn’t under his bed.”

"But we can refuse to play the game. We can call out the grifters by name. We can stop treating 'both sides' of a conspiracy theory as a valid debate. Sunlight, as they say, is the best disinfectant, even if the people you’re shining it on scream like vampires.”

"We can also shut down the people on our side of the pro-democracy fight peddling the antipodean version of Trumpian conspiracy theories. Hillary Clinton did not win in 2016, and Kamala Harris didn’t win in 2024. Blueanon isn’t as bad as QAnon…but it’s not something to rely on."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675288134/

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