How the Right Went Wrong
We had a fascinating conversation for my Complicity and Courage series with Stuart Stevens, adviser for the Lincoln Project, former Republican strategist, and author of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Stuart traces the GOP’s “dominant gene” in today’s GOP back to McCarthyism, and describes his own journey in the Republican Party, what he got wrong (or ignored), and why he believes that the only option is to defeat them, soundly, at the polls. We also discuss whether Democratic leaders are up to meeting what is required of this moment (jury still out on that one).
Also, Stuart highly recommended the Franz von Papen Memoirs, which is available here.
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