The Conspiracy To End America: The GOP and Trump

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Lincoln Square

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.9 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author and former GOP strategist, Stuart Stevens, joins Rick to discuss his new book: Conspiracy To End America. They discuss the GOP's reveal its ugly underbelly under Trump, drawing parallels to historical authoritarian movements. They delve into the party's collapse and the potential consequences of a second Trump term, emphasizing the erosion of democratic values and institutions. Stuart Stevens’ new book, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy, is available now: Timestamps: [00:02:16] Building blocks of an autocratic movement [00:06:23] The Financiers [00:13:10] A strain of cruelty [00:19:39] Treating Putin as the hero [00:22:23] Losing control of the party [00:28:10] Authoritarian hallmark's [00:32:05] What a second term looks like Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Resolute Square.
0:02.0	Square.
0:04.0	There was also maintained what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated.
0:14.6	Democrats want Republicans dead.
0:18.6	Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?
0:27.0	The women was the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a Martian.
0:36.0	On January 6th of 2021 you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting.
0:42.0	So, it's not a right-wing conspiracy.
0:44.0	You're doing on!
0:45.0	It's real!
0:47.0	I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the Enemy's List.
0:50.0	My guest today on the Enemy's List is my... enemies list.
1:03.9	My guest today on the enemies list is my friend, a guy who has who has done some of the most amazing political work of any person alive today. He's been involved in five presidential campaigns, countless US Senate and governors races around the
1:07.9	country. Stuart Stevens is the guy who political media in this in the last century has basically been defined by.
1:16.5	And Stewart has a tremendously important new book out.
1:19.9	It's called The Conspiracy to End America.
1:22.4	Five Ways My Old party is driving our
1:24.5	democracy to autocracy. This is a subject Stuart and I and the rest of the team
1:29.2	at Lincoln talk about pretty much all the time, But Stewart has compressed this into a
1:34.3	absolutely brilliant and necessary book and with that Stewart my friend welcome to
1:39.1	the enemies list. Thank you brother it's good to be here you know that whole preamble is basically just another way of saying you should blame Stuart for how fucked up
1:46.4	American policy now
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