Posted on | September 30, 2025 | No Comments
Has anyone else ever wondered what happened to Nicolle Wallace? She entered politics as a Republican Party operative, becoming press secretary for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at age 27, in which role she helped fight the month-long battle over the 2000 Florida election recount.
Wallace joined the White House staff during George W. Bush’s first term, serving as special assistant to the President and director of media affairs at the White House, where she oversaw regional press strategy and outreach. In 2003, Wallace joined Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign as its communications director . . .
On January 5, 2005, Bush named Wallace White House Communications Director. . . . She left the White House in July 2006 to relocate to New York City, where her husband Mark was representing the Bush administration at the United Nations.
Perhaps it was her role in the 2008 John McCain campaign, during which she developed an incurable hatred of Sarah Palin, that explains how Wallace (née Nicolle Devenish, who has since divorced her first husband, Mark Wallace, and married New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt) became a televangelist for the religion of Trump-hatred. Palin was the first iteration of the populist sentiment among grassroots conservatives that subsequently sparked the Tea Party movement (2009-2010). The same populist energy drove the Herman Cain presidential campaign in 2011 (before Cain was taken out by a dubious “scandal”), and eventually coalesced around the Trump campaign beginning in 2015. One might see Nicolle Wallace as a typical example of the snooty elitist attitudes of the Bush-era GOP establishment, which explains why she’s now on MSNBC pumping up the paranoid fear of Trumpist “fascism.” In May, MSNBC announced she would be hosting a new weekly podcast:
On her new podcast, “The Best People,” Nicolle Wallace sits down with the smartest, funniest, wisest people she knows. These are the people who are the best at what they do and use their success to help others.
You will probably not be surprised to learn that all “the smartest, funniest, wisest people” Nicolle Wallace knows are afflicted with terminal-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome. Among her guests have been Stacey Abrams, Jason Bateman and Tim Miller. This week, however, she plunged deep into the abyss of Trump-hating craziness:
Former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell on “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” Monday said even her therapist questioned why she was so devastated by President Donald Trump’s administration.
O’Donnell fled to Ireland to escape Trump’s second term, but continues to emotionally opine on the president. She said on the podcast that she could not comprehend why others did not share her emotions, including her therapist, who she said questioned her about them.
“When people say ‘I changed my mind,’ we have to say ‘Welcome back to reality. Let’s all be Americans together.’ Right? Because what’s happening is not only happening to Democrats,” O’Donnell told host Nicolle Wallace. “It’s happening to everyone. And when the Medicaid cuts go in, old people are going to start to die, to die.”
“What he’s done hasn’t even hit us yet. And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country,” she continued. “And I don’t know, Nicolle, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, ‘Why are you so upset?’ And I said to her, ‘Why are you not?’”
(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Have you ever dealt with someone in the grip of paranoia? Whatever phantasm they’re obsessed with — their idée fixe — they will try to convince you it’s very real, and they will accuse you of being ignorant if you don’t share their hair-on-fire hysteria about it: “Don’t you understand how the Freemasons and the international banking conspiracy are threatening our very existence?”
The real “tell” in Rosie’s rant — what reveals the source of her madness — is her repeating the lie that Republicans intend to cut Medicaid so “old people are going to start to die.” This is just a Democratic Party propaganda line, one they’ve been using for 30 years to frighten senior citizens, and has no basis in fact. The people responsible for this propaganda know full well that it’s a lie, but are utterly cynical about the needless fear that they’re inciting — whatever helps them win elections, they’ll say, and who cares about the stupid chumps who actually believe it? Remember the video they made with Paul Ryan pushing granny off a cliff? Just total cynicism. Yet here you have Rosie O’Donnell, one of “the smartest, funniest, wisest people” Nicolle Wallace knows, repeating this dishonest fear-mongering bullshit as if she believes it.
It’s like the QAnon cult or something — seclude yourself inside a echo-chamber bubble where all you see or hear is feeding confirmation bias for conspiracy theorists, and you’ll drive yourself crazy.
In Rosie O’Donnell’s case, of course, that was a very short drive.
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