Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves

by Rick Wilson

But this isn’t just any election; it is an existential moment for America. This is either the last election of the nation we understood and loved, or the first of a long reset where we restore our honor and image after Trump’s term.

This election? Yeah. It’s the real, apocalyptic deal. Pick one: our messy, flawed, wonderfully sloppy democratic republic stumbling toward the shining city on the hill, or a kingdom of cruelty and utter corruption led by a family of authoritarian kleptocrats in thrall to foreign powers. In those terms, you’d do anything to win, right? Right?

We never did—and most likely never will—tackle entitlement reform. Nations don’t get to go bankrupt; they collapse.

The bad guys know the same things our allies know: This is a weak man in a weak White House. He is unreliable, untruthful, and unmanageable.

Your mission is tough but simple. Defeat Donald Trump.

We may hate him for different reasons, but I hope we’re united in the understanding that his defeat is an existential challenge for this republic, and that odd alliances, political compromises, and joint operations are worth the discomfort we may feel as we step back from our ideological priors.