{"id":3278,"date":"2020-08-19T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2020-08-19T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:48:59","slug":"a-devastating-indictment-of-the-republican-party-from-a-gop-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"A devastating indictment of the Republican Party from a GOP insider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;For 30 years, Stuart Stevens was one of the most influential operatives in Republican politics. He was Mitt Romney\u2019s top strategist in 2012, served in key roles on both of George W. Bush\u2019s presidential campaigns, and worked on dozens of congressional and gubernatorial campaigns \u2014 building one of the best winning records in politics. Then Stevens watched his party throw its support behind a man who stood against everything he believed in, or thought he believed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most dissidents from Trumpism take a familiar line: They didn\u2019t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left them. But for Stevens, Trump forced a more fundamental rethinking: The problem, he believes, is not that the GOP became something it wasn\u2019t; it\u2019s that many of those within it \u2014 including him \u2014 failed to see what it actually was. In Stevens\u2019s new book,&nbsp;<em>It Was All a Lie<\/em>, he delivers a searing indictment of the party he helped build, and his role in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/ezra-klein-show-podcast\/2020\/8\/10\/21361966\/stuart-stevens-gop-republicans-trump-romney-ezra-klein\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/ezra-klein-show-podcast\/2020\/8\/10\/21361966\/stuart-stevens-gop-republicans-trump-romney-ezra-klein<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For 30 years, Stuart Stevens was one of the most influential operatives in Republican politics. He was Mitt Romney\u2019s top strategist in 2012, served in key roles on both of George W. Bush\u2019s presidential campaigns, and worked on dozens of congressional and gubernatorial campaigns \u2014 building one of the best winning records in politics. Then Stevens watched his party throw its support behind a man who stood against everything he believed in, or thought he believed in.<\/p>\n<p>Most dissidents from Trumpism take a familiar line: They didn\u2019t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left them. But for Stevens, Trump forced a more fundamental rethinking: The problem, he believes, is not that the GOP became something it wasn\u2019t; it\u2019s that many of those within it \u2014 including him \u2014 failed to see what it actually was. In Stevens\u2019s new book, It Was All a Lie, he delivers a searing indictment of the party he helped build, and his role in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[129,509,968],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gop","tag-politics","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}