20 must-read history books like Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves by Rick Wilson

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Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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• government
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Similar categories in Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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Similar categories in Cassidy Hutchinson's Enough book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
• politics
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Similar categories in George Stephanopoulos's The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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• audiobook

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Similar categories in Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
• politics
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• audiobook

"He’s a fucking moron,"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

Similar categories in Madeleine K. Albright's Fascism: A Warning book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• politics
• nonfiction
• government
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"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

Similar categories in Anonymous's A Warning book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

• american history
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• government
• adult
• audiobook

"Legislators, regardless of party, have an obligation to monitor the executive branch. They should do so fairly and respectfully, but above all, they should do so."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"In the history of American democracy, we have had undisciplined presidents. We have had inexperienced presidents. We have had amoral presidents. Rarely if ever before have we had them all at once."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"Republicans gave the keys to the kingdom to a man who paid hush money to shut up a porn star he'd been sleeping with while married to his third wife, who'd recently given birth to their son. Are we s…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

"I was wrong about the "quiet resistance" inside the Trump administration. Unelected bureaucrats and cabinet appointees were never going to steer Donald Trump in the right direction in the long run, o…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

Similar categories in Carol Leonnig's I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

• american history
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Front Row at the Trump Show book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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"As former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, ' You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"I didn't become a reporter to dutifully record the words of the people in power. I became a reporter, in part, to hold those in power accountable."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"In a situation like that, it is the reporter's responsibility either to get an answer or to demonstrate that the politicians are ignoring the questions."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very first amendment. If we can't speak out, if we cannot challenge those in power, there is no…"

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Craig Unger's House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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• audiobook

Similar categories in Stuart Stevens's It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• american
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• government
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jon Favreau's Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

• american history
• history
• politics
• humor
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• history
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• audiobook

"I'm writing this book as a citizen; as an advocate for factual journalism; and as a new dad who thinks about what kind of world my children are going to inherit. This story is about a rot at the core…"

-Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Similar categories in Fred C. Trump's All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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Similar categories in Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves book and Rick Wilson's Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

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• politics
• humor
• nonfiction
• government
• adult
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"Don’t build a watch; tell voters the time."

-Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

"Every time I hear “Hillary won the popular vote,"

-Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

"Trump isn’t Hitler. Hitler had normal-sized hands and the ability to concentrate for more than thirty seconds."

-Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves

"Most presidents would instantly draw a sharp, clean line between campaign operations and the use of military force. This is the proverbial “wag the dog"

-Rick Wilson, Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump — And Democrats from Themselves