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From Rick Wilson—longtime Republican strategist, political commentator, Daily Beast contributor—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.

In the #1 New York Times bestselling Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson delivers “a searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: ‘What the hell is going on?’ (Chicago Tribune). The Guardian hails Everything Trump Touches Dies, saying it gives, “more unvarnished truths about Donald Trump than anyone else in the American political establishment has offered. Wilson never holds back.” Rick mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history.

Wilson unblinkingly dismantles Trump’s deceptions and the illusions to which his supporters cling, shedding light on the guilty parties who empower and enable Trump in Washington and in the media. He calls out the race-war dead-enders who hitched a ride with Trump, the alt-right basement dwellers who worship him, and the social conservatives who looked the other way. Publishers Weekly calls it, “a scathing, profane, unflinching, and laugh-out-loud funny rebuke of Donald Trump and his presidency.”

No left-winger, Wilson is a lifelong conservative who delivers his withering critique of Trump from the right. A leader of the Never Trump movement, he warned from the start that Trump would destroy the lives and reputations of everyone in his orbit, and Everything Trump Touches Dies is a deft chronicle the tragicomic political story of our time. From the early campaign days through the shock of election night, to the inconceivable train-wreck of Trump’s first year. Rick Wilson provides not only an insightful analysis of the Trump administration, but also an optimistic path forward for the GOP, the conservative movement, and the country.

“Hilarious, smartly written, and usually spot-on” (Kirkus Reviews), Everything Trump Touches Dies is perfect for those on either side of the aisle who need a dose of unvarnished reality, a good laugh, a strong cocktail, and a return to sanity in American politics.

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Scalpel in hand, a conservative strategist dissects Trumpism, the Washington, D.C., swamp, and the new GOP. The autopsy report isn't pretty...Wilson's insider take is hilarious, smartly written, and usually spot-on. Somebody had to do it." -- ―Kirkus Reviews

“A searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: ‘What the hell is going on?’…. A fascinating, fierce and fearless exposition of the political mess America finds itself in today.” -- ―The Chicago Tribune

“His raw-brawling style and deftly articulated rage…have made Wilson an unexpected darling of the left, and a kind of Cassandra in steel-toed boots for his own party…. The book is a clarion call to conservatives about how ‘Kim Jong Don's’ reverse-Midas touch is ‘an Orwellian erasure of what conservatism represents’ that will define the party for generations to come.” -- ―The Week

“Hear the sizzle? That’s the sound of Wilson, Republican strategist and now Never-Trumper, burning the president, his family, cabinet, and GOP stalwarts.” -- ―Booklist

“Veteran GOP political strategist Wilson, who for decades was a top Republican attack dog and was the guy the party relied on to craft its message and strategy, offers a scathing, profane, unflinching, and laugh-out-loud funny rebuke of Donald Trump and his presidency...those who share his views will find this rewarding.” -- ―Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Rick Wilson is a seasoned Republican political strategist and infamous negative ad-maker. His regular column with The Daily Beast is a must-read in the political community. Published in The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, The Federalist, Independent Journal Review, he’s also a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, With Friends Like These, and the national networks. The author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, Rick Wilson lives in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife, four dogs, and a nameless cat. They have two grown children.

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Publisher : Free Press (August 7, 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1982103124
ISBN-13 : 978-1982103125
Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Ive long despised Rick Wison...

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2018

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...for his Jeremiah Wright ad against Obama in the 2008 election. I thought who is this craven low life who twists the words of a black preacher, speaking truth to power and makes the first black presidential candidate have to walk a delicate race driven line? Rick Wilson was that man. I am the political opposite of my beloved conservative Republican father and we have argued and agreed and vehemently disagreed my whole life and my dad loved me more than himself, so I have been able to listen across the aisle for the majority of my life. Along comes Trump, an ignorant, reality show host, birther creator, and rascist and suddenly my dad and I are on the exactly same side. My father mourned the loss of what his grand ol party had become until the time of his death last year. He shared, unprompted, that he voted for his first Democratic candidate when he checked the box next to Hillary Clinton. He was an og Never Trump-er, so I helped him seek out other Never Trump Republicans he could read and he didn't feel so alone. I found Rick Wilson on our journey and became a fan and cheerleader. I may never forgive him for the Jeremiah Wright ad, but today is today and we got bigger fish to fry and we need all hands on deck. I'm reporting for duty, Mr. Wilson. We'll discuss marginal tax rates after the battle.

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Ethan Cooper

A funny but deeply depressing rant

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

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Want to read a tirade about the Trump presidency? If so, EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES (ETTD) should be near the top of your TBR pile. Interestingly, Rick Wilson, the author of this rant, is no ally of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Instead, he is a rock-ribbed conservative who believes in small government, responsible spending, free trade, and international alliances. This, in Wilson’s view, was what the Republican Party stood for before the Trump takeover.

But that’s enough about Wilson. Here’s a taste of his ranting: “Everything we Never Trump folks warned you of, including massive, decades-long downstream election losses is coming. Alienating African Americans and Hispanics beyond redemption? Check. Raising a generation of young voters who are fleeing the GOP in droves? Check. Age-old beefs, juvenile complaints, and ego bruises taking center stage while the world burns? Check. Playing public footsie with white supremacists and neo-Nazis? Check. Blistering pig-ignorance about the economy and the world? Check. Pushing a tax bill that jacks economic inequality into the stratosphere? Check. Shredding the last iota of the GOP’s credibility as a party that cares about debt, deficits, and fiscal probity? Check.”

Interestingly, Wilson, who calls himself a master of political attack ads, acknowledges that he and his colleagues within the grown-ups wing of the Republican Party—he includes William Kristol and George H. W. Bush in this group—bear responsibility for what Wilson definitely considers Trump’s desecration of conservative politics and principles. Although Republicans, according to Wilson, have long tried to exploit the dark forces in American politics, they have, until Trump, always succeeded in corking the bottle after using racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and class resentment to win elections. Then came the 2008 Presidential election. Wilson observes:

o “The creature that emerged after Sarah Palin… in 2008 kept growing, hungry not for policy victories that realigned the regulatory state, but for liberal tears, atavistic stompy-foot rages…”

o “…we fed the monster and trained it. I know how patronizing that sounds, the thought that we could activate and—call it what it is—manipulate voters. Well, we did. As the tools of data, targeting, and analytics improved, we got very, very good at it.”

o “We kept feeding the monster. We rewarded its darkest impulses. We brought it out when the time was right. The portfolio of messages, political rhetoric, and communication venues we built constituted a suite of powerful political tools.”

o “Then Trump came along. We lost control of those tools, the party, and the movement. The monster is out of its cage, and new trainers (both here and in Russia) encourage only its dumbest, darkest, most capricious, cruel, and violent behavior.”

In his epilogue, Wilson posits two possible paths forward for American politics. The first he calls his Mad Max Outcome, which includes Donald Trump Jr. named as President in 2024 and the mysterious death of Rick Wilson in the crash of a small airplane. In contrast, he calls his second option the Big Reset and imagines the emergence of a new conservative movement in American politics. This second option, BTW, is the least persuasive element in ETTD since the Republican Party, in renouncing racism and resentment, becomes the conservative movement led by Bill Buckley, who was principled and quirky and never in power. Wilson gets the final word.

“When Trump slithered down the golden escalator in his eponymous tower in 2015, I felt bile rising in my throat. This guy? This jackass? I was quite sure nothing had changed about his blustering ego, fever-swamp birtherism, and con-artist modus operandi. Given the ideological underpinnings of Trumpism—slurry of barely coherent nationalism, third-world generalissimo swagger, and the worst economic ideas of the 19th century—I recognized that he was an existential risk to the country, win or lose.”

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Frank

A great and funny book but a too convenient rewrite of history

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018

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Rick Wilson gets five stars for his telling of events and his humor post 2016 and Trump coming down his crappy escalator. But this idea that prior to Trump the GOP was this non racist party of fiscal conservatives is laughable. Some topics he fails to discuss are things like the southern strategy the GOPs 50 year effort to flirt and dog whistle bigots into their coalition. He glosses over the proven, widespread racist voter suppression tactics that have been found illegal by courts as a tiny fringe effort. This belies the fact that Wisconsin, Texas, North Carolina and many states have had their racist vote and election tactics unconstitutional. He forgets that the John McCain he helped made stupid and racist mainstream with the nomination of Sarah Palin.

You also hear him claiming that Obama supporters are just as cult like as Trump supporters. Sorry, Obama was a principled statesman of the left. Therefore people liking him a lot is not the same thing as people cheering and blindly devoting themselves to a bigot, conman, and traitor. He can’t get over his derangement as he continually tries to draw this false analogy between rational support for a Obama to the death cult that surrounds Trump.

As for fiscal conservatism he lionizes Reagan a man who increased our national debt by 300 percent in 8 years. He also doesn’t mention how you can trace the income inequality he complains about to the birth of Reaganomics of the 80s. He doesn’t talk about the 4 trillion dollar war crime and hunt for imaginary WMDs.

In short the Republican Party was not this great non racist, competent, fiscally Conservative party before Trump. It’s like the Bush debacle and the Second Republican Great Depression of 2007 never happened and Trump destroyed this mythical world of a principled, non racist, non stupid GOP.

Great read, enjoyable, right on Trump. But a total cop out of the inherent racism of the right prior to Trump. The GOP was plenty bad before Trump, and it got much, much worse after it.

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Thomas P.

Overall a good read, but starts with too much venting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2018

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Oddly enough, I found myself writing a review of this book in my head by the time I was 20 or so pages in. The headline would have been "Entertaining, but I'm not enjoying it very much". The reason for that odd summation is that the book starts off with an extremely high density of colorful and amusing insults to Trump and those in his ecosystem, but they dominate the initial narrative to such an extent that it becomes exhausting after a while. There's a point where I started longing for more substantive insight and analysis, but I was worried that the venting would continue for the whole book.

Luckily, Mr. Wilson apparently gets over his rage sufficiently that this is exactly what occurs, and the book settles into a much better balance of cutting analysis seasoned with the occasional put down. This is when the book took a turn from "entertaining" to "good", and I found myself sneaking in reading time whenever I could. Mr. Wilson methodically and thoroughly examines the myriad aspects of the Trump Extended Universe, exposing their dysfunction and failure with the eye of a seasoned veteran that used to play for the same team. And BTW, Democrats don't escape his notice in his analysis of what's gone wrong.

Two aspects of the book really stuck in my mind, both of which are near the end:

First, I found Mr. Wilson's likening of current mainstream Republicanism to the French Vichy government under the Nazis to be the perfect summation of the puzzling capitulation of Republicans to Trump and his followers, although the unspoken (but apt) parallels between the Free French and Never Trumpers has a slight whiff of self-aggrandizement.

Second, in the section where Mr. Wilson explores best/worst case scenarios in the wake of Trump, I found Mr. Wilson's exploration of the worst-case to be a missed opportunity. He treats it largely as a comic exercise (but one that oddly might still come to pass in the insane world of Trump), and not the chance to really discuss what's potentially at stake. Given the players and the attitudes some embody, it seems to me that civil war isn't out of the question for the nation's future, and hence his worst-case exploration could have really benefited from a more serious treatment from him, given his knowledge of the players and circumstances.

But those misgivings aside, this is a highly enjoyable and engaging book that's well worth the read.

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Mwmbwls

Revenge is a dish best served fresh?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2018

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It is understandable why US Democrats and European liberals would hold Donald Trump in disdain - An autocrat not a democrat - an oligocracy not a democracy but Rick Wilson has Republican running through him like Blackpool Rock. He has a Cassandra/Kassandra like vision of the destruction of core values that Republicans stand for. He has a nimble term of phase and unerring unforgiving "James Gillray" style of wit which engages your interest that sucks you into this book - that is until page 252 ( Spoiler Alert) when he points out, in a great "I wish I'd thought of that " reveal that not every Trump supporter is a racist xenophobic alt-right man child but that every racist xenophobic alt-right man child is a supporter of Donald Trump. Charles Kettering said " a problem well stated is a problem half solved" - Rick Wilson has defined the Republican Problem. His next book has to be " How to build a Wooden Horse".

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A. Turner

Great book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2018

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I love this book. It uses suitable language to discuss what a disaster Trump is and has always been. When his crimes are exposed, everyone who ever supported him is going to be SO embarrassed.

17 people found this helpful

k gotheridge

What's not to like.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2018

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An absolute joy to read, with laugh out loud comments on every page, even the introduction! With the author being a Republican as well only adds power to the writing. Highly recommended. I can't wait for his next 'post Trump' book.

14 people found this helpful

FrustratedOptimist

Loved this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2018

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Yes he's a Republican, but he's doing invaluable work in ridiculing that orange thing. I'm still laughing at his description of Trump's decorating style as 'Liberace meets Saddam', or of Steve Bannon's sartorial choices as 'Bus shelter chic'. I promise, you will feel a little bit saner.

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