Running against the devil : a plot to save America from Trump -- and Democrats from themselves / Rick Wilson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593137581
- ISBN: 0593137582
- ISBN: 9780593137581 : HRD
- ISBN: 0593137582 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780593137581
- ISBN: 0593137582
- Physical Description: xiv, 325 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Forum, [2020]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-315) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Election night, November 3, 2020 -- Why this book? -- Part 1: Case against Trump, or four more years in hell. Four more years in hell ; American swamp ; Crazy racist uncle act ... isn't an act ; Cruelty as statecraft ; Trump's economic bullshit machine ; Generalissimo Trump and pillow fortress America ; All rise: President McConnell's courts ; The environment ; Imperial Trumps ; Our national soul ; The mission -- Part 2: The myths of 2020. It's a national election ; The policy delusion ; America is so woke ; Kumbaya ; You'll get Obama's minority turnout ; Muh youth vote -- Part 3: Army of darkness: Trump's war machine. The Trump 2020 war machine ; Never underestimate incumbency ; Trump's messages and strategies ; No heroes in the GOP ; His fucking Twitter feed, fakebook, and Fox agitporn ; The mainstream media ; Deepfake nation ; You have no secrets ; The death of truth -- Part 4: How to lose. Flying by the seat of your pants ; Playing the campaign, losing the reality show ; Asking the wrong polling questions ; Magical thinking ; The culture war: where Democrats go to die ; Reviving the Clintons ; The danger of Democratic Trumps ; Taking the infrastructure week bait ; Externalities are a bitch -- Part 5: How to win. Only fight the Electoral College map ; Speaking American ; First rule of Trump Fight Club ; Start early ; Start advertising. now. ; No more Potemkin campaigns ; Make the worst of Trump's base his running mate ; Reaching Trump voters, if you must - and sadly you must ; Be the party of markets, families, and security ; Third parties and spoilers ; Investigate + interrogate > impeach ; The target list -- Part 6: Epilogue : Election night, November 3, 2020. |
Summary, etc.: | "Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump's administration is rocked by daily scandals, and he's embarrassed us at home and abroad. Trump can't win in 2020, right? Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can't win, but the Democrats can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that's a Democratic candidate who runs the race Trump wants them 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-no-prisoners 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 Republican war machine, showing the exact strategies and tactics they'll use against the Democratic nominee . . . and how the Democrats can avoid the catastrophe waiting for them if they fall into Trump's trap. Running Against the Devil is sharply funny, brutally honest, and infused with his 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Trump, Donald, 1946- > Influence. Presidents > United States > Election > 2020. United States > Politics and government > 2017- |
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Publishers Weekly Review
Running Against the Devil : A Plot to Save America from Trump--And Democrats from Themselves
Publishers Weekly
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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." (Jan.)
Kirkus Review
Running Against the Devil : A Plot to Save America from Trump--And Democrats from Themselves
Kirkus Reviews
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A wily Republican strategist rings in on the challenge facing Democrats in 2020.Political campaign consultant Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, 2018), who airs his views in a variety of venues, intensifies his strident excoriation of Trump with a hard-hitting assessment of Democrats' chances of winning the next presidential electiona victory that is crucial for saving the country. The author decries Trump as "a flawed, awful shitbird of the worst order" and a "political and moral monster" who will go down in history "for endemic corruption, outrageous stupidity, egregious cruelty, and inhumanity" and who has spread "moral and political contagion" and caused the collapse "of a once-great party." Trump needs to go, but Wilson fears that Democrats will hand him reelection unless they focus on 15 states critical for an Electoral College win. "You're not really running a national campaign," he insists. "You're running fifteen state campaigns." After many chapters of "robust and richly deserved Trump-bashing," the author turns to strategy, cautioning Democrats against focusing on policy. Instead, they need to attack Trump's actionse.g., a trade war that victimizes farmers, cruelty and brutality toward immigrant children, unrepentant racismand personal failings to make their case to voters who can still be swayed: "the large and growing cohort of Republican women who broke away from the GOP, and the white, Democratic men who broke for Trump in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida." These voters want a moderate; they are not youthful progressives, who, Wilson asserts, won't win Democrats the states they need. The author suggests talking points about abortion, guns, immigration, tax cuts, judges, and socialism. He warns Democrats of the threat of a third party run and underscores the importance of "a real modern, data-driven campaign" and deployment of surrogates, such as the Obamas. He offers a state-by-state game plan, homing in on pertinent issues and recommending liberal spending on targeted ads. Democrats can win, Wilson maintains; but will they?A caustically funny, outraged, and deadly serious analysis. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.