Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

The Friday Brief, November 12, 2026

Less Than Zero

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Nov 13, 2026
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Inside:
Less Than Zero: What The GOP Learned
Huang Out
Burn It To The Ground
Leadership Fights Get Lit
The House Kinda Won
What I Did Tuesday Night
The 2028 GOP Death March
I’m Everywhere
When AI Slop Gets It Right

The Big Picture

Less Than Zero: What The GOP Learned

Nothing.

The answer is nothing.

They will reflect on nothing. They will consider none of their sins, because they don’t believe they committed any. Nothing about the incentives in their lives will change, and before the concession calls were even finished, they were already sizing up the next grift and the next mark.

For ten years, the mark was the Republican base, that eager mob of MAGA boomers who lapped up every imaginary moral panic and ludicrous conspiracy like cats at a saucer of cream. They bought the pizza parlor cannibal tale and the election that was never stolen. They bought the litter boxes in the school bathrooms, the Venezuelan voting machines, and the Italian satellites. They bought it with small-dollar donations, MyPillow promo codes, and their votes, and they kept buying long after anyone with a functioning frontal lobe could see the product was shit and the MAGA brand worse.

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