It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Occasion Turned Donald Trump

Stuart Stevens spent many years electing Republicans at each stage, from presidents to senators to native officers. He is aware of the GOP as intimately as anybody in America, and on this new ebook he provides a devastating portrait of a celebration that has misplaced its ethical and political compass.

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.