*I spent decades working to elect Republicans, including Mr. Romney and four other

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presidential candidates, and I am here to bear reluctant witness that Mr. Trump didn’t hijack the Republican Party. He is the logical conclusion of what the party became over the past 50 or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race-baiting, self-deception and anger that now dominate it. Hold Donald Trump up to a mirror and that bulging, scowling orange face is today’s Republican Party. . .

I Hope This Is Not Another Lie About the Republican Party
But it might be lost forever.

By Stuart Stevens
Mr. Stevens is a Republican political consultant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opinion/trump-republican-party-racism.html?

[Indykatie]

1. This is an Excellent Read. Finally Someone on the Right Admits Trump Didn't Corrupt the GOP.

I Remember Stevens passing on Working for McCain because he knew the kinds of race bait attacks that would be leveled at Obama during the race.

[gopiscrap]

2. yup

[ariadne0614]

3. NOW a warning?

“This collapse of a major political party as a moral governing force is unlike anything we have seen in modern American politics. The closest parallel is the demise of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, when the dissonance between what the party said it stood for and what citizens actually experienced was so great that it was unsustainable.”

[Martin Eden]

4. 50 years in the making ...

... more than spans the entire political career of Stuart Stevens, in which he worked to promote the power of the Republican Party.

His essay tells the truth, but ultimately he spent his career promoting BIG LIES.

At best he was a useful idiot.

Nevertheless, let's hope more come forward to renounce what their life's work has led to.

Not an easy thing to do.