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"Former chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project advisor, and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don't wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and fair election. Today's Republican party is not a ""normal"" political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return. Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize, and shock troops. THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it. In the tradition of It Can't Happen Here and On Tyranny, THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is a blinking red distress call about the dark intentions lurking within Stevens' old party and a rallying cry to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic."

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"As a former Republican strategist and media consultant, no one knows the threat we face today from the Republican party, which has embraced autocracy and works to damage our democracy beyond repair. His timely and heartfelt book lays out the essential elements and enablers of authoritarianism with admirable clarity. It's essential and timely reading.-- ""Ruth Ben-Giat, MSNBC Opinion Columnist and author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present"" Please read this book! Stuart Stevens has been everywhere and seen everything, and he shares what he has learned in concise, vivid prose. His book is urgent but not despairing. It is deadly serious but frequently funny. It offers the big picture based on numerous details and stories. I'm glad he wrote it, and glad I read it.-- ""James Fallows, author of Breaking News and former White House Director of Speechwriting"" Republican campaign legend Stuart Stevens used his skills to battle Trump as candidate and president. Now Trump is back - and so is Stevens, with this anguished and eloquent summons to stand for democracy against reactionary authoritarianism at home and abroad.-- ""David Frum, senior editor at The Atlantic and MSNBC contributor"" THE CONSPIRACY TO END AMERICA is two stories in one: It's the story of how the Republican Party came to reject democracy as a governing principle. It's also the story of a former Republican insider and political operative confronting the painful truth that the party he once worked for has embraced authoritarianism. 'Pain is the best teacher in politics, ' says Stuart P. Stevens. He thus concludes that 'the only hope for the Republican Party is for it to suffer crushing defeat after crushing defeat so that it is forced to confront its failures.-- ""Teri Kanefield, author of Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America"" Stop whatever you are doing. Pour a stiff drink and read Stuart Stevens new book right now. On the other side of this political and civic moment, we will look around for the people who saw it coming and warned us - not hysterically, but methodically, and with evidence that the Republican Party has become one of the world's most agitated autocratic movements. With his exquisite voice and decades of relationships and experience, Stuart walks readers through the transformation of a once (relatively) normal party to one that now poses a threat to democracy. Stuart is my friend but I don't recommend this because of our friendship - this is the first must read of the 2024 election cycle of you want to understand the stakes."" --Nicolle Wallace, anchor of MSNBC / Deadline Whitehouse"

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Stuart Stevens is the author of eight previous books, most recently, the bestselling It Was All a Lie, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief, and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation's toughest political campaigns.

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