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

by Rick Wilson

Donald Trump has the devil’s own luck when it comes to getting out of things that would have doomed any other candidate or elected official. I’ve been as guilty as anyone of believing that some issue or outrage would finally destroy Trump. Because I believe we are being tortured by the cruel and capricious gods of politics, he slithers away from crisis after crisis, never tested fully, never held to account, and always ready to detonate a wave of more news to escape the problem of the moment. People hoped insulting John McCain would derail him. They hoped Iowa or New Hampshire or Florida would derail him. People hoped that a floor fight at the convention would derail his nomination. They hoped pussy grabbing would derail him. Then they hoped the Electoral College wouldn’t vote for him. Then they toyed with the idea of removing him through the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Or that impeachment would be a thing even with Mitch McConnell running the Senate. Some hoped that the Mueller Report would lead to his removal from office. Some thought Jeffrey Epstein would reveal Trump’s penchant for teen girls. Some believed that, facing terrible legal trouble, Trump might simply resign or, at the very least, not run for reelection. We do not live in a world of miracles.