Finally, a Never Trumper Admits It's Time to Blow Up the GOP

[Nevilledog]

Racism is the only tool Republicans have left to cling to power.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/04/finally-a-never-trumper-admits-its-time-to-blow-up-the-gop/

As Elizabeth Kolbert documented a few years ago, human beings don’t change their minds about much of anything very often. That goes a long way towards explaining the durability of some of Trump’s support. It is also why I have been pretty fascinated with many of the Never Trumpers. Some of them have managed the incredibly difficult task of examining their loyalty to the Republican Party and changing their minds.

No one has done that more courageously than Stuart Stevens, who spent most of his adult life not only supporting the Republican Party, but being one of their major political consultants. David Corn recently interviewed Stevens, who takes the whole idea of personal responsibility very seriously.

He once believed in GOP ideals and ideas. Now he saw it all as a huge con. His new book is a confession and cri de coeur. The first line is blunt: “I have no one to blame but myself.” In these pages, Stevens self-flagellates, calling himself a “fool” for his decades of believing—and lying to himself—that the Republican Party was based on “a core set of values.” Acknowledging his role, Stevens writes, “So yes, blame me. Blame me when you look around and see a dysfunctional political system and a Republican Party that has gone insane.”

That is what gives Stevens’ analysis of how the GOP went insane some credibility.

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[denem]

1. "No pardons for 'Good Germans' " -Steve Schmidt

The Lincoln Project sees things the same way.

[NCjack]

2. OK, Mr. Stevens. I blame you and those who think like you. What are you going to do about GOP?