meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Party of Trump with Stuart Stevens

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Did Donald Trump hijack the Republican party, or is he the party’s logical conclusion? Having spent decades as a political operative putting Republicans in office, Stuart Stevens argues it’s the latter. His new book “It Was All a Lie” sifts through the party’s decades-long march that led to the election of President Trump and reckons with what remains of the Republican political project.  RELATED READING: It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens I Hope This Is Not Another Lie About the Republican Party by Stuart Stevens (NYTimes July 29)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I don't think, though, that you have to be a racist

0:03.2

of overdone or a term, but I think particularly now,

0:05.6

you have to be willing to accept that whatever benefit

0:09.4

you're getting from Donald Trump being president

0:11.9

is greater than the fact that we have a racist as president.

0:16.1

And I think that's very disturbing.

0:18.7

Hello, and welcome to Wise This Happening

0:23.3

with me, your host Chris Hayes.

0:25.3

We've got another week here in the quarantine closet.

0:32.1

Get another week here in America going through a once

0:35.8

in a century catastrophe.

0:38.6

I wish there were better news to bring you,

0:40.4

but you don't need to bring you the news in the podcast.

0:42.4

But today, well, today we're focusing

0:44.4

on an interesting breed of human, a relatively rare specimen.

0:48.4

In some ways, the most overrepresented voice in America,

0:51.0

which is the voice of the never-Trump Republican,

0:53.8

there are probably, in the country,

0:56.5

there's numerically not a ton of them,

0:59.1

but they have a lot of influence in the discourse,

1:02.8

partly because a huge percentage

1:04.6

of fairly prominent members of the Republican establishment,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MS NOW, Chris Hayes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of MS NOW, Chris Hayes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.