It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

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5. I was about to post this

Stevens has just published a book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, in which he traces the destruction of the modern Republican Party to the civil rights movement, when the party first lost a huge chunk of the nonwhite vote and never looked back. He said his book concludes that racism has been embedded in the modern Republican Party since that time.

“A pattern becomes pretty obvious that there were always these two elements within the party,” Stevens said. “So in the ’50s it was an Eisenhower element and a Joe McCarthy element, and the Joe McCarthy element was imbued with a lot of racism.”

He lays some of the blame on William F. Buckley Jr., the intellectual dean of the modern Republican Party and, in his early days, “a stone-cold racist,” in Stevens’s description, who supported continued segregation in the South. Citing the memo by Pat Buchanan to President Richard Nixon that became the backbone of the so-called Southern Strategy — a tactic for attracting white voters by appealing to their racist instincts — Stevens said Trump’s Republican Party is cynically exploiting racism just as much or more than its predecessors.

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“There was almost an audible sigh of relief: ‘We can just throw that out the window,’” Stevens said of the Republican reaction. “It’s like, ‘Thank God, we don’t have to pretend we care about this [race] stuff anymore. We can just win with white people.’”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/veteran-gop-operative-stuart-stevens-says-beating-trump-is-so-urgent-he-would-vote-for-bernie-sanders-if-he-had-to-215125952.html

He really breaks it down in the article. Trump exposed who the Republican party really is.