Stuart Stevens was Mitt Romney’s Chief Strategist, and a lifelong Republican operative.
I interviewed him in 2021.
He says all the Republican purported values that he believed, have been abdicated in the age of Trump.
His book is titled “It Was All A Lie”.
Societies’ collective brain has been carefully trained over the past few decades. Are people in the Republican party stupid, or just distracted with nonsense. I bet they could name brands, but struggle naming continents. This administration has started exactly where the last Republican one left off. Panama, Greenland, Canada, Gaza, California fires. The BS is piling up and it’s only been 3 weeks. They know how to control media and they already dumped their shock and awe stategy on public consciousness. Behind the scenes they are dismantling the US state.
A rare moment of honesty from the Republican strategist.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation
To keep my sanity, I’ve decided not to engage with media feeding me the Whitehouse circus, only analysis from non American media.
The American government was created with checks and balances to prevent what is happening right now. But I assume the founding fathers never imagined a doofus president surrounded by trillionaire tech bros running social misinformation sites like Twitter/X and Facebook.
“A republic, if you can keep it” is a quote from Benjamin Franklin that was said during the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. Franklin said this in response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”.