Running Against the Devil
A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A savvy guidebook for beating Trump’s tricks, traps, and tweets from a founder of The Lincoln Project, now updated with new material on the historic battle between Trump and Joe Biden—and how the pandemic has changed the race
“If you believe America’s future depends on Donald Trump’s political machine being crushed at the polls next year, then Rick Wilson’s Running Against the Devil is a must-read.”—Joe Scarborough, MSNBC
Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump’s administration is corrupt, inept, and rocked by daily scandals. In the handling of 2020’s coronavirus pandemic, its incompetence has been deadly.
Trump can’t win in 2020, right?
Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can’t win, but Joe Biden can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that’s a Democratic campaign that runs the race Trump wants Democrats to run instead of the campaign they must run to win in 2020.
Wilson combines decades of national political experience and insight in his take-noprisoners analysis, hammering Trump’s destructive and dangerous first term in a case-by-case takedown of the worst president in history and describing the terrifying prospect of four more years of Trump.
Like no one else can, Wilson blows the lid off Trump’s 2020 political war machine, showing the exact strategies and tactics Republicans will use against Biden, and how the Democrats can avoid the catastrophes waiting for them if they fall into Trump’s traps. Running Against the Devil is sharply funny, brutally honest, and infused with Wilson’s biting commentary. It’s a vital indictment of Trump, a no-nonsense, no-holds-barred road map to saving America, and the guide to making Donald Trump a one-term president.
The stakes are too high to do anything less.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Republican strategist Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies) delivers a histrionic yet trenchant guide to presidential politics with the ostensible purpose of helping Democrats win the White House in 2020. Declaring the Democratic Party to be "terrible at the work of electoral politics," Wilson first presents the liberal nightmare of a Trump reelection ("your pride in being the most progressive candidate and campaign since FDR turns to ashes in your mouth") before sketching the prospective lasting impacts of Trump's second term, including the erosion of social norms ("a generation will learn its behavior from the worst role model since Saddam Hussein") and the rise of a political dynasty ("the Imperial Trumps"). To prevent such a scenario, he suggests that Democrats make the 2020 election a referendum on Trump rather than a debate over policy issues such as health care, gun control, or the environment. Wilson intersperses his strategic advice with satirical asides (potential tweets from Trump's second term, fact-checks from future debates) that produce more eye rolls than genuine guffaws, and while his keen political insights can be difficult to glean through his disdain for his imagined liberal reader, they're often on-target. Democrats with a high tolerance for invective would do well to consider the book's fundamental warning that winning in 2020 will require "put electoral realities ahead of progressive fantasies."
Customer Reviews
I bought the audio book, loved it!
I’m a liberal democrat. I live by the motto, Think, Think Different, then Think Thoughtful thoughts.
You can’t think thoughtful thoughts until you hear a cohesive argument from the other side. Rick does it with this book.
If you are anti Trump, read this book, or better get the audio. Rick’s passion comes through and makes it very enjoyable to hear.
A MUST read for Democrats
All the democratic candidates must read this. None yet seems truly prepared to do what must be done and Rick Wilson is definitely a guy who can help them fix that profound deficit.
Fantastic read!
Rick is very refreshing in his views and I hope the right people take some of his advice.