Running Against the Devil

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.