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Everything Trump Touches Dies
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever | Rick Wilson
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A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson brings his darkly funny humor and biting analysis to the absurdity of American politics in the age of Trump. Wilson mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party he served for decades, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history. 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 warns his own party of the political catastrophe that leaves everyone involved with Trump with reputations destroyed and lives in tatters. Wilson unblinkingly dismantles Trumps deceptions and the illusions to which his supporters cling, shedding light on the guilty parties who empower and enable Trump in Washington and the news 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. Everything Trump Touches Dies deftly chronicles the tragicomic Trump story from the early campaign days through the shock of election night, to the inconceivable trainwreck 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. Combining insider political analysis, blunt truths, and black humor, 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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TSTKE

This is a fascinating look inside the Trump administration. Very fun and very apt.

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Samplergal
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“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” said Kip Brown, a former Trump Castle employee.5”

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Samplergal Like we didn‘t know it. 6y
MicheleinPhilly He‘s so gross. 6y
SleepyDragon Whoa ... 6y
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Samplergal
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“It‘s the thing I find most depressing about Trump. He‘s trained his docile followers to believe in an America that is weaker, sadder, and smaller than we really are. I remain optimistic about America, our rich talent and our amazing, messy, wonderful, ridiculous, crazy, passionate people. It‘s too bad a central tenet of Trumpism is to run down the people of this country, describe a nation so lost and weak it requires an authoritarian strongman.”

Gaylagal2 I know, right. Trumpers are so dam negative! I'm nothing like that and I truly, truly miss the Obamas❤️ At least he was really good looking....lol! (edited) 6y
mrsmarch Btw @Samplergal I thought of you and your family today! I wish you blessings for the new year! 6y
skewermann Goes well with the definitive guide to the Chump administration https://twitter.com/skewermann/status/1301793540624670722?s=19 4y
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Samplergal
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“The president isn‘t a conventional politician” translates as “We hope Donnie will channel his creativity, and stop setting fires and dissecting roadkill in the kitchen.”

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Emily92Bibliophile After I finish my current audio ( SO GOOD) I will start this one! 6y
Samplergal @Emily92Bibliophile I have that one on my list at the library. I‘m surprised they have it. 6y
Emily92Bibliophile @Samplergal yeah my list of books TBR that are under Racism in America, Islamophobia, Trump and etc my library does not own. I have found them all on SCRIBD. 👍🏻 6y
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Samplergal @Emily92Bibliophile What are your thoughts on scribd? I‘m thinking for this type of book I may need to do something else? Better than audible? Cost? 6y
Emily92Bibliophile @Samplergal what I‘m probably going to do is recommend my list of 10 or so books with the above topics and see if they get them. I used to work there( before I started in the school district) and they have bought and put most the books I have recommended in the collection. Here‘s hoping 🤞🏻 6y
Samplergal Oh good!!! That may help. I haven‘t been so lucky with my Florida library. 😜 6y
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If you‘ve not read this, it‘s undoubtedly one of the best political books out now. Rick Wilson is a perfect wordsmith and captures it all. A republican insider, he‘s talking. I‘m about 1/2 way through, and so glad I picked it up. Lots of laugh out loud giggling is happening. Just what I needed. #24B4monday and all the other readathons this weekend,

Andrew65 Bet this is selling well at the moment. 6y
Gaylagal2 Officially on my TBR! 6y
SleepyDragon Part of me wants to stack it, but I think I'm burned out on this topic. I think I want to hide in fiction for a while. It hurts less. 6y
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Samplergal @NeesyBeth I get it. This one is funny. He writes with lethal sarcasm. And it‘s perfect relief from the other. Really. Here is one of his headers. “WE HATE BIG GOVERNMENT, EXCEPT WHEN IT‘S GETTIN‘ THE MESSICANS”

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Lreads Maybe it's infantile of me but every time I see his hand like that I cringe in disgust. 6y
SleepyDragon Okay, Stacking. 6y
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“Historians will recognize Reince Priebus as the man who could have killed the Trump virus early. Instead, he incubated it. He kept feeding it nutrients when he should have been killing it with bleach and hot, cleansing fire.”

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Just got this from the library and started it this week. Okay so far. I‘m not a fan of what he and his kind have done to politics and while I follow him on Twitter and enjoy his live QA/rant sessions when he is waiting in the CNN green room, Im hoping to see more introspection about the role he played in paving the road to Trump before the end of the book. #firstpost

the.bookish.valkyrie Welcome to Litsy! 🎉📚💕 6y
Megabooks Welcome to Litsy! 👋🏻📚 6y
Kaye Welcome ! 🌸 6y
Samplergal Welcome! I‘m reading this one. Loving it! 6y
Slajaunie Welcome to Litsy!📖📚💚 6y
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PacingTheCage
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So, this was a good (and kind of funny) book. This book is for anyone, left, right, center, who doesn't like Donald Trump.

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Sace
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So it's only the second day of the month and I'm already questioning two of my choices. I'm not in a great head space right now and I wonder if I should skip these two books and just stick to more comfort type reads.

DGRachel Maybe wait until after the midterm elections are over to decide? If those results are positive, I might be more inclined to read Fear as “history”. If the results are more Trump supporters in Congress, then avoid those books like the plague. 6y
gradcat I said this before when I commented on “Fear,” so at the risk of repeating myself, maybe this will help you decide? Reading “Fear” does seem like old news, or history, in a way, simply because he does so many outrageous things on a daily basis. Maybe skip it in favor of something else on your list? (edited) 6y
Sace @DGRachel I think this is a great suggestion! 6y
Sace @gradcat I might do that. I'm inclined to skip the tagged book because I've started it and the writing isn't my style. 6y
gradcat Bravo! I applaud your decision, lol!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
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Sace
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I actually completed my October TBR so I thought I'd try a more ambitious list for November. I've got a week off and we're going on a cruise so hopefully I can accomplish this. Can you tell I have a couple themes?

Lindy I like your Indigenous author theme. 👍 6y
Sace @Lindy thanks! I thought it was appropriate for the season. 6y
ravenlee The Count is amazingly good, and if you can sit down and plow through it the story actually moves very quickly. 6y
Sace @ravenlee I started reading it last year and stalled out a little bit after Carnevale in Italy. Hoping to finish it this month. 6y
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I am by no means a Christian zealot (but I do believe in God and Jesus and I have my personal reasons for doing so) but I know people who are (family members! ) and this just made me so mad at them. I love them but, dang. On and on when I was growing up about all of the bad things and yet, Trump is good? Trust. Broken.

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#24B4Monday Moving on...This is my first "Trump" book because I seriously just don't want to read anything about him. I liked the title. Seems interesting. We shall see.

Booksnchill If it sucks try “Hope Never Dies” for a lovely nostalgia for the pre post truth era! 6y
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@Kaye #showyourkindle
1. Should I be embarrassed that I own 2?
2. Both are kindle Fires
3. At least 5 times a week
4. Too many
5. No. I really should though.
6. I've never tried.
7. Yup. One pretty. One bland.

PS tagged book is one I recently downloaded and the title makes me laugh.

Coleen_Nieto You need at least 2 kindles so one can charge while you're reading the other ♥️🍂 6y
Sace @Coleen_Nieto that's my kind of thinking! 6y
Kaye Good idea on the double kindles so you always have one charging. 6y
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Sace @Kaye it's definitely what I'm going to start telling myself. 😁 6y
Coleen_Nieto It's what I tell myself too :) 6y
Sace @Coleen_Nieto It seems such a logical explanation. I'm so ashamed I didn't think of it before. You're a lifesaver! 6y
Coleen_Nieto Well I do what I can lol! Common sense is not my strong suit normally so when inspiration strikes I have to go with it ;) 6y
Sace @Coleen_Nieto Ha! Ditto! 6y
Coleen_Nieto @RestlessFickleBookHoarder I must say at least once a day "I have that book, I just haven't read it yet ". I thought I was the only one! ! 6y
Coleen_Nieto I have the same cover as you on my Samsung! ! 6y
Sace @Coleen_Nieto we have to be Litten twins! 6y
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Twocougs
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If you‘re a Trump fan, don‘t read this. If you‘re not a fan, you‘ll enjoy this. I recommend the audio because, Rick himself reads it, which enhances the experience. I laughed, I cried, I got pissed off.

teainthelibrary He‘s a frequent guest on one of my favorite podcasts, With Friends Like These. If you haven‘t, you should check it out!! 6y
Twocougs @teainthelibrary thanks, I‘ll check it out! 6y
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Why not? Rick certainly has a way with words,especially as he pulls no punches when it comes to Trump.

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Well, I do love the title! 6y
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