.@stuartpstevens, author of "It Was All a Lie" about the #Republican party: #NikkiHaley "epitomizes someone who has a great future behind her.... It's the history of Mephistopheles, right? Not only does he take your soul, but he doesn't deliver." #WITHpod
.@stuartpstevens, longtime #Republican consultant: "I don't think we've had a moral collapse of a party in certainly modern American political history like the Republican party has." 2/1
"The closest thing I can come to it is the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, which the dissonance bwn what it said it believed & what it was in experience was so great it collapsed & you watched Chernobyl. That's basically the #Republican party." --Fmr GOP strategist S Stevens
In 2016, other #Republican candidates wanted to knock each other off so they could get 1-on-1 with Trump b/c they didn't think the party would nominate "a failed casino owner who talked in public about wanting to have sex with his daughter." Fmr GOP strategist @stuartpstevens
"And now Trump is talking about suspending elections & everybody goes, 'Well, you know you can't do that.' I don't know, man. I mean, tell me, if Trump ordered DHS to go in on Nov 4th to seize ballot boxes b/c of irregularities in Dade Co, what would happen?" @stuartpstevens 1/2
"The courts would go crazy, but DHS would have the ballot boxes. ... And the whole legitimacy of the election would be called into question, so maybe like the only thing to do would be to have the election over," Stuart Stevens, fmr GOP strategiest, author "It Was All a Lie."
.@chrislhayes's Why Is This Happening? #podcast is always a good listen, but his 45-min conversation with fmr GOP strategist @stuartpstevens is #progressive political junkie heaven.
He can turn a phrase like @SteveSchmidtSES, but delivers it with sly #Southern charm. #WITHpod
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