{"product":{"product_id":"0525658459","title":"It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump","price":"20.2","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41uWuggtwUL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525658459"},"comments":[{"body":"You might be interested in [this book](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459/).  It was written by Stuart Stevens, who spent his entire career working to get Republicans elected (included Dubya and Reagan for examples).\r\n\r\nHis claim is that Trump did not suddenly flip the Republican party on its head, but that the GOP has been drifting away from conservative principles for generations, instead following a policy of naked power accumulation and partisanship.\r\n\r\nIt's a good read.","subreddit_name":"news","author":"jseego"},{"body":"It's just as easy to say\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;one party is always slinging the mud at the other party. Pretending they are regular folk, caring, taking on all the \"conservative\" debates of the hour. Yeah it matters. **Liars they are.** ***(****2020 fraud, with suitcases full of votes, embryos are persons, Biden caused inflation and high gas prices, Dems grooming children, Judge Jackson lenient with child pornographers, no tax cuts for the rich, etc.* \r\n\r\n[t Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459) In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses to the reader that the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies..","subreddit_name":"Syracuse_comments","author":"International-Let207"},{"body":"There's a whole bunch of high profile conservative people who used to believe this claptrap, and then Trumpism came along and the scales fell from their eyes--that it was about social control by any means all along. George Will, Bill Kristol, Joe Walsh, George Conway, the whole Never Trumper gang. Lifelong Republican political operative Stuart Stevens literally wrote  book called \"It Was All A Lie\".  https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459","subreddit_name":"RedditForGrownups","author":"eastwardarts"},{"body":"So there’s an excellent book that was just released by an long time Republican political consultant, called “It was all a lie”\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0525658459/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_B8lnFbWHT23KQ\r\n\r\nIn a nutshell: \r\n\r\nthe belief held by most Republicans for the longest time, since Reagan, was that the racist, nationalistic, Trumpian type conservatives in the Republican Party were a small fringe, and the majority of the party were sensible, college educated, fiscally responsible, small government, free market conservatives.\r\n\r\nBut after the election of Trump it’s revealed to the author that what was considered “fringe” is the main bulk of Republican supporters, and the fiscally responsible conservatives are actually the fringe. \r\n\r\nWell worth a read.","subreddit_name":"changemyview","author":"SexyPeanutMan"},{"body":"Nah, I just don't care to waste my fuckign time.\r\n\r\nGo read a [book by a Republican operative](https://smile.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=it+was+all+a+lie\u0026amp;qid=1597009147\u0026amp;sr=8-1) and get back to me when you pull your head out of your ass.","subreddit_name":"conservatives","author":"ScienceBreathingDrgn"},{"body":"This book will answer your question: https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459","subreddit_name":"Persecutionfetish","author":"HLMenckenFan"},{"body":"Whereas you have the Republican who wrote this book\r\n\r\n[It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459)\r\n\r\nThe author:\r\n\r\n[served as a top strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in addition to several other significant presidential campaigns over the course of his career](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Stevens)","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"Dana07620"},{"body":"I would not normally recommend some goofy cartoon interview segment from CBS, but this is by the far the most succinct take down of Rick Wilson, one of the Lincoln Project co-founders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNvuYPpX0C0\u0026amp;feature=emb_title\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; more on the neocon side of neoliberal than the guys\r\n\r\nThis is also my approximate ideological position, I guess my own biggest issue with them is that their grift (and as others have pointed out, it is decidedly a grift) is that their claim to authenticity is that they promulgated what they now say are the lies of conservatism. Stuart Stevens, for example, has published [It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459).\r\n\r\nWell, you created the fucking lie, bro! These people were all senior leaders in the Republican party. They have not actually taken *any* responsibility for anything that they allege that they've done (never mind the question of whether what they now itself is actually truth or just another lie. There are strong elements of Lee Atwater's supposed death bed confession about the Southern Strategy, which I personally think is bullshit, but YMMV). Rather, they expect to be thanked.\r\n\r\nIt's all kind of gross.\r\n\r\nAnyways, I agree with the other comments here that it's a grift and that their ad spends also make no sense, but as neocon-ish center right person, this is why I, personally, loath these people ideologically.","subreddit_name":"WeTheFifth","author":"CptBuck"},{"body":"May I recommend a book that gives insight into the American 'conservative'?   \r\nStuart Stevens - *It's All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459))\r\n\r\nThe author was a GOP operative for \\~40 years consulting on GOP gubernatorial, congressional and presidential campaigns. He openly discusses how the GOP has operated (himself included) over the past half century and the title sums it up.\r\n\r\nI find the book to be a very honest criticism of the GOP and is extremely insightful in understanding why/how average 'conservatives' seem to live in a parallel reality. Part manipulation by the party, part self-sabotage by the electorate (by choosing to believe/amplify GOP talking points), part inability to adapt to a changing country. Also racism plays a large part. I would personally add that they lack self-awareness or they are very good at ignoring it *\\[edit\\]* *and a significant portion lack genuine empathy*.\r\n\r\n[Stuart Stevens (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Stevens)\r\n\r\n[Guardian review of the book](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/it-was-all-a-lie-review-trump-republican-party)","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"silas_fitch"},{"body":"The damage was done long before this.  I can't stop talking about this.  Read [It Was All A Lie](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459) by longtime GOP political strategist Stuart Stevens.  He basically lays out how the whole thing has been run for the last 40 years.  Trump did not make this happen, Trump was the result of this happening.\r\n\r\nDoes anyone remember the *Jade Helm* panic during the Obama administration?  Jade Helm was a real military training exercise that the military holds every year in/near Texas.  Right-wing conspiracy nutcases/racists went into overdrive trying to convince everyone that Obama was legit going to use this as a cover to *declare martial law and invade Texas*.  For real.  This even made it onto FoxNews.\r\n\r\nWhat happened?  NOTHING.  It was just a military exercise.  Even generals getting up in public and saying so made no difference.  But - here's the thing - neither did it turning out to be an actual military exercise.  After Jade Helm went off without any hint of martial law being declared, was there any apology or correction notices or introspection?  Nope, just on to the next crisis that also happens to be a huge lie.\r\n\r\nThis was in 2015, but this kind of shit has been going on for literally generations now.  It's a *backbone* of conservative politics.\r\n\r\nRemember when Obama was a \"secret muslim\" and a \"terrorist\"?\r\n\r\nRemember when people who didn't support the Iraq invasion (or even supported the invasion but were critical of the massive war profiteering) were \"terrorists\" and \"Saddam sympathizers\" who \"hated America\"?\r\n\r\nRemember when we had to take out Saddam Hussein because he could attack the USA with a \"mushroom cloud\" \"within 45 minutes\"?\r\n\r\nRemember when \"latte liberals\" and \"limousine liberals\" were all \"insane\" \"coastal elites\" and all conservatives were good, hard-working middle-class \"real Americans\"?\r\n\r\nRemember when war hero John Kerry was \"swift-boated\" by some conservative stooge who said he never earned his medals, and remember when conservatives (and the entire media who went along with them) said that Al Gore claimed to have \"invented the Internet\"?\r\n\r\nRemember when we had to dismantle welfare and gut our government programs because \"welfare queens\" were driving around in Cadillacs getting rich off of the welfare system?\r\n\r\nRemember when the entire federal government used the actual deep state, to really, in real life, infiltrate and break up left-wing political organizations and people had to go and testify in Congress that they didn't have certain political beliefs so that they wouldn't lose their jobs??\r\n\r\nThe BIG LIE has been THE WAY of the conservatives and republicans since Eisenhower left office.\r\n\r\nIt's not Trump.\r\n\r\nIT'S WHO THEY ARE IN THEIR CORE.\r\n\r\nTHEY DON'T WANT TRUTH.  THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT TRUTH.\r\n\r\nTHEY WANT POWER.\r\n\r\nTHEY WANT TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER CLASS OF PEOPLE.\r\n\r\nTHAT'S IT.\r\n\r\nTHAT'S ALL IT IS, THAT'S ALL IT EVER WAS.","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"jseego"},{"body":"I’ll make a deal with you then. I’ll watch the conspiracy film if you read this book:\r\n\r\n[It was All a Lie: How the Republican Party became Donald Trump](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459)\r\n\r\nDeal?","subreddit_name":"media_criticism","author":"ProfessorPerfunctory"},{"body":"and [Stuart Stevens](https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459).  He even wrote a book about how they did it.","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"jseego"},{"body":"Item | Current | Lowest | Reviews\r\n:-- | :-- | :-- | :--\r\n[It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became…](https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0525658459) | - | - | 4.6/5.0\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n^[Item\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/compare/US:0525658459)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Bot\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/info#reddit-bot)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Trigger](https://www.reddit.com//r/testingground4bots/comments/ptrjuh/price_spider_bot_testing/hg0a66u/)","subreddit_name":"testingground4bots","author":"price-spider-bot"},{"body":"Item | Current | Lowest | Reviews\r\n:-- | :-- | :-- | :--\r\n[It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became…](https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0525658459) | - | - | 4.6/5.0\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n^[Item\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/compare/US:0525658459)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Bot\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/info#reddit-bot)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Trigger](https://www.reddit.com//r/testingground4bots/comments/ptrjuh/price_spider_bot_testing/hfxf6ar/)","subreddit_name":"testingground4bots","author":"price-spider-bot"},{"body":"Item | Current | Lowest | Reviews\r\n:-- | :-- | :-- | :--\r\n[It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became…](https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0525658459) | - | - | 4.6/5.0\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n^[Item\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/compare/US:0525658459)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Bot\u0026amp;nbsp;Info](https://price-spider.com/info#reddit-bot)\u0026amp;nbsp;|\u0026amp;nbsp;[Trigger](https://www.reddit.com//r/testingground4bots/comments/ptrjuh/price_spider_bot_testing/hfx9ba1/)","subreddit_name":"testingground4bots","author":"price-spider-bot"}]}