Monday, September 09, 2019

Rick Wilson's "Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real about the Worst President Ever"

In my confirmation bias reading tour, this is a complementary piece to Amanda Carpenter's book I addressed last week. This one is by far more vulgar and profane, but like the other, published by a Republican, not by Democrats, so not an attack from the left.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39312362-everything-trump-touches-dies

Some of those reviews point out his attacks on Trump apologists and supporters, and I agree much of that is over the top. Attacks on people's sexual experience or lack thereof are of no real value or import in addressing the challenges of today's current executive branch environment, and in that sense one could argue is part of the problem.

Does a good job pointing out differences between nationalism and conservatism. I've always been a bit confused by folks calling non-Trump conservatives RINOs, when it makes more sense to me to label Trump a RINO given his positions on many social, economic and policy positions.

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