Politics Reporter Jeremy W. Peters Traces Trump’s Hold on the GOP in ‘Insurgency’

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“How did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party?” That’s the question driving New York Times national politics reporter Jeremy W. Peters’s new book "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.” In it, Peters outlines key points and events in recent history that fueled conservatives’ “revolution from within,” like the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy that bolstered Trump’s image as a politician and an overlooked New Hampshire senate race in 2014 that would inform the playbook for GOP anti-immigration policy. He also interviewed former President Donald Trump for the book. We’ll talk to Peters about “Insurgency” and about his reporting on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s loss Tuesday in the defamation lawsuit she brought against the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	Coming up on forum, how did the party that claim to value small government, morality, and fiscal responsibility become the party of Trump?
1:21.6	For New York Times correspondent Jeremy Peters, the warning signs of an ascendant far right were visible for decades
1:29.0	in figures like Pat Buchanan and Sarah Palin and in the rise of a right-wing media arm.
1:35.4	We'll talk to Peters about his new book, Insurgency, which looks at how the establishment GOP lost
1:41.1	its party and about the latest political news, including the verdict in Sarah Palin's
1:47.0	libel lawsuit against the Times. Forum is next after this news.
1:51.0	This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. New York Times correspondent Jeremy Peters covers politics and media. And today we'll talk about both. Peters has a new book about the GOP's right-wing revolt titled Insurgency, How Republicans Lost their party and got everything they ever wanted.
2:19.3	He's also been covering the defamation lawsuit against the New York Times by former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
2:28.3	Yesterday, the jury delivered its verdict in that case. After about five hours of deliberation, finding
2:35.0	Palin had not been defamed by the Times when the paper incorrectly linked her 2011 political
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