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You might be interested in this book. It was written by Stuart Stevens, who spent his entire career working to get Republicans elected (included Dubya and Reagan for examples).
His 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.
It's a good read.
It's just as easy to say
>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.
t Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump 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..
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
So there’s an excellent book that was just released by an long time Republican political consultant, called “It was all a lie”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525658459/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_B8lnFbWHT23KQ
In a nutshell:
the 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.
But 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.
Well worth a read.
Nah, I just don't care to waste my fuckign time.
Go read a book by a Republican operative and get back to me when you pull your head out of your ass.
This book will answer your question: https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459
Whereas you have the Republican who wrote this book
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
The author:
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&feature=emb_title
> more on the neocon side of neoliberal than the guys
This 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.
Well, 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.
It's all kind of gross.
Anyways, 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.
May I recommend a book that gives insight into the American 'conservative'?
Stuart Stevens - It's All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (Amazon)
The 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.
I 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.
The damage was done long before this. I can't stop talking about this. Read It Was All A Lie 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.
Does 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.
What 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.
This was in 2015, but this kind of shit has been going on for literally generations now. It's a backbone of conservative politics.
Remember when Obama was a "secret muslim" and a "terrorist"?
Remember 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"?
Remember when we had to take out Saddam Hussein because he could attack the USA with a "mushroom cloud" "within 45 minutes"?
Remember when "latte liberals" and "limousine liberals" were all "insane" "coastal elites" and all conservatives were good, hard-working middle-class "real Americans"?
Remember 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"?
Remember 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?
Remember 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??
The BIG LIE has been THE WAY of the conservatives and republicans since Eisenhower left office.
It's not Trump.
IT'S WHO THEY ARE IN THEIR CORE.
THEY DON'T WANT TRUTH. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT TRUTH.
THEY WANT POWER.
THEY WANT TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER CLASS OF PEOPLE.
THAT'S IT.
THAT'S ALL IT IS, THAT'S ALL IT EVER WAS.
I’ll make a deal with you then. I’ll watch the conspiracy film if you read this book:
It was All a Lie: How the Republican Party became Donald Trump
Deal?
and Stuart Stevens. He even wrote a book about how they did it.
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I recommend the book It Was All A Lie. Very enlightening.
https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459
A book recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459
Some not so light reading that may help answer your question
https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2017/9/22/16345194/republican-party-pathological
https://newrepublic.com/article/144592/trump-creating-propaganda-state
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/trumps-rnc-was-loaded-disinformation/615838/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/politics/what-matters-august-26/index.html
https://bostonreview.net/politics/yochai-benkler-real-reason-gop-suppresses-vote
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34551376/republican-party-after-trump-2020-election/
This book really helps lay out how the party has become what it is today
https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459
Some good videos'
Just read the book 'It Was All a Lie' first.
If you have friends or family on the fence send then Stuart Stevens's Book: It Was All a Lie How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
https://www.amazon.com/Was-All-Lie-Republican-Became/dp/0525658459
You might appreciate this book.
It's a good book, though I think he's far too kind and charitable to traditional Republican leadership.
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