It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today
“A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies." —The New York Times
Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass.
This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, from Goldwater's opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan's welfare queens and states' rights rhetoric. He gives an insider's account of the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values," and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.
Customer Reviews
Great insight into the machine
Let me start by saying that I wish the author had narrated. I’ve heard his interviews and his matter of fact delivery is better matched to the content.
Mixed in with the authors clear exasperation at today’s Republican Party, are rich details about how ‘almost true’ messaging has been used over the decades, how the state political parties work, and the future of the party.
Evidence about the upcoming demise of the GOP’s influence is delivered through demographic data and how it’s being ignored by those who should be paying attention.
Like the fact based approach to the subject.
Some repetition through the book. Maybe a paper version would make these less noticeable.
It Was All a Lie
This book clearly describes the Republican Party in The United States—it reviews step-by-step how the party of Trump has descended into a corrupt and mendacious group of “white people” who are consumed by hate, suspicion, and conspiracy theories. Their leader, President Trump, is the most dishonest President in the history of the country. Despite the President’s poor leadership, the Republican Party appears—at least in their hyperbolic endorsements of him—to be happy with him and everything he represents. He lies, misrepresents his opponents, has suspicious ties to Russia, has many emolument-related conflicts of interest, and violates every norm of decency, but his core followers love him and see him as the savior of America. The author, Stuart Stevens, sees these facts as the troubling evolution of the broken Republican Party.
I highly recommend this well written and incisive critique of the Grand Old Party.
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