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Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

The Sham of the Republican Party

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Lincoln Square

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Enemies List, best-selling author and former GOP strategist, Stuart Stevens, joins Rick to expose the sham that is the Republican Party. For decades Stuart was behind the curtain helping elect governors, members of the US House and Senate, and presidents. He shares his cold, hard assessment of the demise of his former party and its rise as an authoritarian, anti-American force today. Rick and Stuart also lay bare the soulless state of the party as the primary process heats up and candidates struggle to carve out a niche and justify their campaigns. And of course, we add to The Enemies List. Stuart Stevens’ new book is available now for pre-order: The Conspiracy To End America Timestamps: [00:00:01] Comparing the current Republican race to previous race's [00:05:14] The Iowa caucuses [00:08:35] Campaign staff vs. media [00:13:15] Trump running as an outsider [00:14:35] Media postures [00:17:43] Hacking democracy [00:21:19] The mythology of Trump [00:26:09] No labels 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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0:01.0

Resolute Square

0:08.0

There was also maintain what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated

0:16.0

Immaculate, want to become like a deadass

0:21.0

Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?

0:28.0

The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a margin

0:36.0

On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting

0:42.0

So, that's not right, we didn't fear to hear you duck killin' on

0:45.0

It's real

0:48.0

I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the enemy's list

0:53.0

Hey folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome back to the enemy's list

0:55.0

My guest today is my good friend and compatriot of the Lincoln Project Stuart Stevens, a veteran of more Republican campaigns than any other human being I've ever met

1:05.0

The man I wanted to be when I grew up, it's Stuart Stevens, and we're gonna talk about all of the chaos and confusion surrounding the Republican primary field, the no-label scenario, Donald Trump's criminal overhang and exposure

1:19.0

And God knows what else will come up, but Stuart, thank you so much for joining me this morning on the enemy's list, how you doing?

1:26.0

Thanks for asking me, Rick, you had to rub in that elected more of these people who are learning to come to anybody else, but you know, that's good man

1:34.0

I know, I know, I'm very high on metamorphosis list

1:38.0

Yes, the tumble's in guillotine

1:41.0

I'm gonna know in one of those cards

1:45.0

One way or the other, one way or the other, we're in trouble

1:49.0

So Stuart, I wanted to start out today because we've talked a lot in the last few months about just how much of a sort of charade this entire Republican primary is right now

2:01.0

And how all these people that are still willing to bend the need of Trump essentially are in my mind wasting the time of the American people and the American media

2:11.0

Walk me through where you score these people in the history of Republican primaries that we've been involved in because I would say they're in the lower quartile

2:20.0

It's very difficult to look at this race and compare it to other races because the way the party has changed that the party has really become an autocratic movement

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