In one word, this is #reprehensible. Once again, #Shame on the #NewYorkTimes for continuing to pollute the #news into #partisan #GPQ #fascist #propaganda with the likes of these 3 #FrankBruni, #AnnCoulter and #StuartStevens ‘I Don’t Think Trump Will Be the Nominee’: Three Writers Preview the First G.O.P. Debate free to read https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/republican-debate-trump-desantis.html?unlocked_article_code=OQ4x8j9vi5eJgUe2HeXfYI6GLgApOs1LcYz6SBvbAOITXt8TNlRFcetSKluon9MqcJGVPnzZxi7eA2m8nHnKXRQHsTVi5KOB_T-AQiylHCtqcMc1cLbgvEx8OJEXe5KCUKqe2t4755gJ5j0YRmd-3-D8QRenquNZ7CvvycaoTSw1HGMwgC_IBFz8jQ9UEUpkuKaj3zmb9z7r4gaYMc-PFOCz_La2S9zBIUIg42EBvC5KQwYW4YFpBUhnX1XOvYGsyzn3IGwDbUW2XezMCBjnbitD9IPGZ2rZcpRh-CfIPyPza23kUt04N2jIMiPADfuSZZMOouCY--R3iJ4OOCH50ZmbF-R20_wJzG8y&smid=url-share

Then Stevens adds,

“There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is the Republican Party in a purified form.”

~ Ibid., p. 4

#Republicans #StuartStevens #Trump
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"The legislation would come and go, compromises would be necessary, but these principles were assumed to be shared and defined what it meant to be a republican for the last 50 years.

What a fool I was. All of these immutable truths turned out to be mere marketing slogans. None of it meant anything”

~ Ibid.

#Republicans #StuartStevens #Trump

“I have no one to blame but myself. I believed. That’s where it all started to go wrong. I was drawn to a party that espoused a core set of values: character counts, personal responsibility, strong on Russia, the national debt actually mattered, immigration made America great, a big-tent party invited all" (p. 3)

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Stuart Stevens, who cut his teeth campaigning for Republican politicians in his native Mississippi and went on to found a strategy and media consulting firm to aid umpteen Republican candiates, opens his book , It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump with a blockbuster paragraph:

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623807/it-was-all-a-lie-by-stuart-stevens/

If you are missing the excellent daily #UkraineNews #Telegraph #podcast by David Knowles, tune in: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/ukraine-the-latest/id1612424182
The latest features former #gop consultant #StuartStevens: “updates from #Bakhmut, discuss #warcrimes in #Ukraine with our global health correspondent & interview a former top #Republican strategist on the U.S. opinion on the #war.”
@ChristopherJM @anneapplebaum #DominicNicholls #LukeHarding #LukeCoffey

#StuartStevens burns-down #NikkiHaley for her hypocrisy as she announces her #2024Election bid. Fair enough, but Stevens spent almost half a century as a #GOP campaign operative before penning #ItWasAllALie . Up to individual readers to tag this column and his book more as laments, or as parts of a retirement portfolio:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/opinion/nikki-haley-republican-party.html