The Republican Party's Shift: Stevens on the GOP Transformation

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"In a candid narrative, Stevens reveals to readers that the entire foundation of the Republican Party is built upon deceit. This realization compelled Stevens to unveil this scathing and revealing account of the party's history. While this book may challenge staunch conservatives, it offers valuable insights that are worth contemplating." – Julian E. Zelizer, The New York Times

A candid and deeply personal exposé from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his time, revealing the transformation of his party into what it is today. Explore the journey of the Republican Party through the eyes of Stevens, gaining insights into its evolution and current state.

Over the years, Stuart Stevens has played a key role in supporting Republicans at every level of government, working with presidents, senators, and local officials. With his deep understanding of the GOP, he offers a powerful critique in his latest book, painting a stark picture of a party that has strayed from its moral and political foundations.

This isn’t a ebook about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Occasion and adjusted it into one thing else. Stevens exhibits how Trump is actually the pure consequence of 5 many years of hypocrisy and self-delusion, courting all the best way again to the civil rights laws of the early Sixties. Stevens exhibits how racism has at all times lurked within the fashionable GOP’s DNA, from Goldwater’s opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan’s welfare queens and states’ rights rhetoric. He provides an insider’s account of the rank hypocrisy of the social gathering’s claims to embody “household values,” and exhibits how the social gathering’s vaunted dedication to fiscal accountability has been a charade because the Nineteen Eighties. When a celebration stands for nothing, he argues, it is just pure that it will likely be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices within the room.

It Was All a Lie is not only an indictment of the Republican Occasion, however a candid and infrequently lacerating mea culpa. Stevens isn’t asking for pity or forgiveness; he’s merely telling us what he has seen firsthand. He helped to create the trendy social gathering that kneels earlier than a morally bankrupt con man and now he needs nothing greater than to see what it has develop into burned to the bottom.