Republican strategist eviscerates US president in new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies
Donald Trump has divided opinion like no other president. This book, by Rick Wilson, pulls no punches in its condemnation of his party, his president, his opponents and himself
He helped start the Never Trump movement. It cost him friends and all manner of potential political work. It subjected him to the threats and fury of Trump’s troll army. He was labelled a Rino (Republican in name only) and a party traitor.
And he didn’t care. Right is right, and Trump was clearly, transparently, unquestionably wrong.
At a time when honesty and integrity were as dead as a dodo in politics, Wilson demonstrated both.
He and his band of Never Trumpers fought mightily to remind Americans what it actually means to be a conservative. (With Trump in office and creating exactly the kind of chaos Wilson predicted, he has done a favour for those of us who haven’t been lost to the cult of Trump.)
He has written a book, a searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: “What the hell is going on?”
