GOP Strategist Calls Donald Trump ‘The Most Dangerous Politician I’ve Ever Encountered’

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:09 pm

The failure to stop Donald Trump is an “act of political malpractice,” Molly Ball writes in the October issue of Vanity Fair , attributing this sentiment to Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, who handled Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.

“I think Trump is the most dangerous politician I’ve ever encountered, and I did a campaign in the Congo against a guy who got accused of war crimes in The Hague,†Stevens said in Vanity Fair. “If that guy would have won, he wouldn’t have had nuclear weapons.â€

This is really all people need to know about Donald Trump. He is dangerous. And that’s not a partisan take on the guy who finds Putin’s dictatorship style of leadership aspirational. The idea that Donald Trump is exceptionally dangerous crosses the aisle. The only people who aren’t saying it are elected Republicans who have their marching orders to follow the current leader of their party, Donald Trump.

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But the public doesn’t know that Donald Trump is dangerous, because the press has clutched their pearls over Hillary Clinton’s non-illegal, much researched and investigated, mini-problems, like her emails. If there is one thing every American knows by now, it’s that Hillary Clinton had a problem with her emails and it must be very, very serious because it’s all they ever hear about.

They do not hear ad nauseam about Donald Trump reportedly wondering why he can’t use nuclear weapons since we have them, wanting to sue the press if he gets into office in order to kill the fourth estate and thus transparency and accountability, the violence he’s incited toward the press and toward protesters, his illegal donations to Florida AG Pam Bondi, his encouraging Russia to hack Hillary Clinton, his suggestion that Hillary Clinton would be shot if she won, his aide saying twice that Hillary Clinton should be shot by a firing squad even though she was cleared of wrongdoing, his problematic treatment of a female journalist he harassed, his conspiracy-oriented beliefs and his birtherism, or his simple inability to articulate a single thought in response to a question about his policies.

Donald Trump is not a thinking man. He is a dangerous demagogue who cares more about how he looks and the praise he seeks than he does anything else, including this country– a fact he’s made obvious by letting Putin play him for a fool.

Until the press finds a way to convey that Donald Trump is actually dangerous, and there is no equivalency on the side of Hillary Clinton, they will be failing in their job.

It is a tremendous task in a world set up to appear impartial by taking cowardly refuge in “he said she said” stories, but it’s now or never. A dangerous man is creeping up on the White House and his vision for this country is not in keeping with the freedom and liberty we all cherish.

Stevens responded on Twitter with an elegantly simple and devastatingly effective narrative, “There’s the Putin side and the American side. Trump has made his choice. What’s yours?”

In other words, if you’re pro-America, vote Clinton. If you’re pro-Russia, vote Trump. That about covers it.



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