Normally, I would write that the book was well done. It was. I would write that it was informative. It is. I would write that I enjoyed it immensely. I did.But that would be a cop-out in this case. The author deserves more of a review than this. And anyone wishing to read this book deserves a more in-depth analysis.I won’t go over the structure of the book. It’s fine. There are a few places where things feel repetitive, but in full context, a repetition of stories or of feelings about people lead to better understanding of the months in question around the time Rick Wilson speaks of (2015 up until roughly mid-2018.)Rick Wilson does not go into the entire history of Donald Trump. He delves into his part in the time when Trump decided to run for office. He does not go into the Russian issues, except in passing. A good idea, given that at the time of this book, the investigation dealing with Russia and Donald Trump is still ongoing.No, I wish to go into the personal issues that this last Presidential campaign caused for the author and why this book is not just another “my detestable President” sort of writing. While overall this is exactly what the title of the book is, I noticed as much the personal damage and what Wilson did to recover from the last election. This book is a part of that, but there was something else as well, Wilson underwent a deep change.He saw his party damaged beyond repair as it shifted from values he grew up with all his, and happily helped to maintain into something akin to a certain viewpoint as noted by Godwin’s Law.This is a book of rage. But it is also a book of showing the acceptance to what happened, and to moving on. This is a book about small men and women gaining great power, and honestly not knowing what to do with it. This is a book about men and women of great power, suddenly at a loss when that power shrinks down from values of a country to the desultory values of a single person.There is still a great mystery left behind. We may never fully understand all the reasons why people he respected turned toward the winner with such depth that they would dismiss so many warning signs of doing such a thing. And he speaks of this.But Wilson also shows us a small bit of what makes Washington DC the city that it is. Not in any particular detail, but the essence of power we’ve derided and yet wondered at is shown here. And most of all, Wilson shows his mistakes that he made himself. And he gives some advice to the opposite party. (I don’t agree with the idea he proposes, but keeping fiscal responsibility in ad hoc for a reborn ‘real’ conservative party is doable I suspect.)There is a sense of revenge here in this book, in the general feel of what he feels is coming. And he’s very honest with his views about that. And personally, I have no issue with the more specific personal revenge he carried out. (Read the book, it’s rather funny, and he done did good while he was at it.)Overall, I think in terms of timing, this book came out at the right time. We needed a reminder of many of the messes we saw but forgot about in trying to keep up with the current administration’s ridiculous glorification of Donald Trump. If Rick Wilson had written this after all was said and done, it would not have come out with the same sense of emotions in the reading. At the very beginning, the sense of “I told you so!” would read too strongly.As it is, that sense of such that he pushes forward with the very title is still fresh in the mind of the readers. It is because of this, I very much recommend Everything Trump Touches Dies to anyone even skirting the idea of understanding the United States of American politics in its current state.As for the future of the party. The cynic in me does not see all his wishes come true. But if the Republican Party is ever to recover. Indeed, if the Democratic Party is ever to grow and change to more modern events, it will be due to people like Rick Wilson to show at least a modicum of a guiding light.