[email protected] reviewed Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson
We still need this book!
5 stars
Rick Wilson wrote this to help the country survive the 2020 election by knowing how to beat Trump. Wilson's book, Everything Trump Touches Dies, was prescient so I was anxious to listen to this. I started it in early 2020, but never finished it due to the pandemic. But now the orange guy is running in 2024, so I got a second chance.
The audiobook is narrated by Wilson himself, and no one else could do it justice. This needed to be done in his voice. I suspect if he was narrating it now, he'd be a bit gentler in tone, but not much.
There are some points in the book that I suspect Wilson has shifted on. For instance, his insistence that young people don't vote was not true in 2020 or 2022. He recently had a Gen X activist on his podcast, and it's clear he's …
Rick Wilson wrote this to help the country survive the 2020 election by knowing how to beat Trump. Wilson's book, Everything Trump Touches Dies, was prescient so I was anxious to listen to this. I started it in early 2020, but never finished it due to the pandemic. But now the orange guy is running in 2024, so I got a second chance.
The audiobook is narrated by Wilson himself, and no one else could do it justice. This needed to be done in his voice. I suspect if he was narrating it now, he'd be a bit gentler in tone, but not much.
There are some points in the book that I suspect Wilson has shifted on. For instance, his insistence that young people don't vote was not true in 2020 or 2022. He recently had a Gen X activist on his podcast, and it's clear he's seeing a change here.
But other than minor quibbles as these, this book holds up. It's worth listening to again if you want to be involved in activism around the 2024 election.